Box 1. Future directions in suicide genetics.
• Within-person longitudinal studies of functional genomics |
• Intergenerational studies |
• Integration of genetic and psychosocial measures of risk |
• Integration of multi-omics data (e.g., epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics) |
• Family studies, consanguineous families |
• Polygenic risk score studies of mechanistic pathways to risk |
• Larger and better-powered GWAS with ancestrally diverse populations |
• GWAS of youth, specific self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, and other subgroups |