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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 26.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2008 Jun;31(2):157–177. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2008.02.001

Table 1.

Schulsinger et al. (1979): Adoption Study: Rates of Suicide in Biological Versus Adoptive Relatives of Adoptees who Committed Suicide and of Live Adoptee Controls*

Adopted Index cases Suicide/biological relatives Suicide/adopted relatives
Suicide 57 12/269* 0/148
Controls 57 2/269 0/150
*

P < 0.01.

*

From Schulsinger et al. A family study of suicide. In: Schou M, Stromgren E, eds. Origin, Prevention and Treatment of Affective Disorders. London: Academic Press 1979: 277–287, with permission.