Genes Responsible for Causing Suicide

Suicide is a complex and grave mental illness sprouted from polygenic factors that disrupt normal neurobiology, physiology and psychology of the affected person manifesting behavioral alterations termed as suicidal behavior (SB). SB owes about 50% liability towards genetic discrepancy leaving the rest for environment or other issues. About 3000 genes have been linked with SB, of which 50 are associated with cell cycle and DNA repair events. Mostly noted genes linked with suicide and suicidal ideation have been highlighted below