. 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 2.

Incidence of Suicide in Biological Relatives of Depressive and Control Adoptees^*

Diagnosis in adoptee	Incidence of suicide in biological relative (%)	OR	P
Affective reaction	5/62 (8.1)	30.3	< 0.0001
Bipolar depression	4/71 (5.6)	20.6	0.003
Neurotic depression	3/122 (2.5)	8.7	0.056
Unipolar depression	3/132 (2.3)	8.0	0.066
No mental illness	1/346 (0.3)	-	-

From Wender et al. Psychiatric disorders in the biological and adoptive families of adopted individuals with affective disorders. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1986;43:923–929, with permission.