Is Suicide in Your Genes?
The DNA and RNA in your genes can reveal your chances of getting breast cancer, your child's father, and now, scientists have found it can even tell the likelihood that someone's thinking of committing suicide . According to medicalnewstoday.com, r esearchers have discovered a series of RNA biomarkers in blood that could be used to develop a test to predict the risk of a person committing suicide. Let's be clear, though. The participants in the study all had bipolar disease, but it's still something that might be applied to anyone, at some point. And they were all male. Blood was taken from patients at three-month intervals and results of the analysis revealed significant gene differences between the patients who experienced high states of suicidal thinking and the people with low states of suicidal feeling. "There are people who will not reveal they are having suicidal thoughts when you ask them, who then commit it and there's nothing you can do abou...