Discovery and validation of blood biomarkers for suicidality

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1249-1264

  Le Niculescu, H ^a,b   Levey, D F ^a   Ayalew, M ^a   Palmer, L ^a   Gavrin, L M ^a   Jain, N ^a   Winiger, E ^a   Bhosrekar, S ^a   Shankar, G ^a   Radel, M ^b   Bellanger, E ^b   Duckworth, H ^b   Olesek, K ^b   Vergo, J ^b   Schweitzer, R ^a,b   Yard, M ^a   Ballew, A ^c   Shekhar, A ^a   Sandusky, G E ^a   Schork, N J ^d   Kurian, S M ^d   Salomon, D R ^d   Niculescu, A B ^a,b   more..

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Marion County Prosecutor's Office   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

biomarkers; bipolar disorder; blood; convergent functional genomics; suicide

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE 3; MYRISTOYLATED ALANINE RICH PROTEIN KINASE C SUBSTRATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; SPERMIDINE SPERMINE N 1 ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOINFORMATICS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE 3; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 84888296028     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2013.95     Document Type: Review

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