At
V. Willour, P. Zandi, J. Badner, J. Steele, K. Miao, V. Lopez, D. MacKinnon, F. Mondimore, B. Schweizer, M. McInnis (2007). "Attempted Suicide in Bipolar Disorder Pedigrees: Evidence for Linkage to 2p12" in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 61, Issue 5 (pp. 725-727) one can read that there might be a genetic disposition to attempt suicide.
Investigations held by the
University of John Hopkins (Maryland, USA) and others seem to agree with the idea that there is a relationship between
Chromosone 2 (the 2p12 area of the
Chromosone) and suicide.
These studies have tried to scan a pattern between bipolars with known attempts of suicide and their families, examining the data of 162 families and including 417 people with diagnosed schizoafective or bipolar ills.
These findings can serve to identify people at risk of suicide, according to the main investigator
Virginia Willour, but then again... Once more we seem to find deterministic ways of seeing people, forgetting that we can have our last decision, despite our biological conditionings...
Or can't we?
Labels: family, genetics, human nature, reasons, suicide
