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Kenneth Kendler, M.D.
Dr. Ken Kendler is the director, eminent scholar and professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Psychiatry has long been interested in the familial transmission of suicidal behavior. Despite a substantial number of family and twin studies of both suicide attempt and death by suicide that have confirmed important familial and genetic contributions, we are aware of only two previous adoption studies specifically focused on death by suicide and only one focusing on suicide attempt.
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Parental psychiatric illness linked to 40% of genetic transmission of suicide attempt
Parental psychiatric illness was associated with suicide attempts among offspring, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry. “Psychiatry has long been interested in the familial transmission of suicidal behavior,” Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and department of psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth
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Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (https://vipbg.vcu.edu/)
Professor and eminent scholar