Dissecting Suicidality Using a Combined Genomic and Clinical Approach.
Dissecting Suicidality Using a Combined Genomic and Clinical Approach.
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使用基因组和临床相结合的方法剖析自杀。
DOI:
10.1038/npp.2016.228
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发表时间:
2017
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Le-Niculescu,Helen
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Niculescu,AlexanderB;Le-Niculescu,Helen
–Winston Churchill One person dies by suicide every 40 s worldwide, despite suicide being a potentially preventable tragedy. It is clear that better assessment, tracking, and prediction of suicidality (ideation, actions) are needed. We endeavored to develop better clinical data tools and objective blood biomarkers for such purposes. The two approaches are complementary, synergistic, and can inform each other. First, in terms of clinical data, we developed a simple polyphenic risk score, based on phenes (phenotypic items) that are known risk factors for suicide. Similar to polygenic scoring, these were scored in a binary fashion as 0 or 1 (absent or present). This questionnaire/app, known as Convergent Functional Information for Suicide (CFI-S), has 22 easy-to-answer items, related to life issues, mental health, physical health, environmental stress, addictions, and cultural factors. It purposefully does not ask about suicidal ideation, as that is a loaded question in most settings, and because people who truly want to kill themselves may not share that information for fear of being stopped. CFI-S can be self-scored or clinician scored, obtained from patient interview, or from information from next of kin or medical records. CFI-S has shown good predictive ability for suicidal ideation and for future hospitalizations for suicidality, in men (Niculescu et al, 2015) and in women (Levey et al, 2016). It can have a therapy-guiding component, in that over half of the risk factors it identifies are correctable. In addition, we have developed and used a simple visual analog scale type of questionnaire/app, known as Simple