Loss of chromosome Y in blood, but not in brain, of suicide completers

Atsushi Kimura; Akitoyo Hishimoto; Ikuo Otsuka; Satoshi Okazaki; Shuken Boku; Tadasu Horai; Takeshi Izumi; Motonori Takahashi; Yasuhiro Ueno; Osamu Shirakawa; Ichiro Sora

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190667

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Loss of chromosome Y in blood, but not in brain, of suicide completers

Atsushi Kimura,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Akitoyo Hishimoto ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: hishipon@med.kobe-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9405-8235

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Ikuo Otsuka,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Satoshi Okazaki,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Shuken Boku,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Tadasu Horai,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Takeshi Izumi,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Neuropharmacology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Motonori Takahashi,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Yasuhiro Ueno,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Osamu Shirakawa,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Ichiro Sora

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Loss of chromosome Y in blood, but not in brain, of suicide completers

Atsushi Kimura,
Akitoyo Hishimoto,
Ikuo Otsuka,
Satoshi Okazaki,
Shuken Boku,
Tadasu Horai,
Takeshi Izumi,
Motonori Takahashi,
Yasuhiro Ueno,
Osamu Shirakawa

Published: January 4, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190667

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