Published on in Vol 5 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/58357, first published .
Enhancing Suicide Risk Prediction With Polygenic Scores in Psychiatric Emergency Settings: Prospective Study

Enhancing Suicide Risk Prediction With Polygenic Scores in Psychiatric Emergency Settings: Prospective Study

Enhancing Suicide Risk Prediction With Polygenic Scores in Psychiatric Emergency Settings: Prospective Study

Younga Heather Lee   1, 2, 3 * , PhD ;   Yingzhe Zhang   1, 2, 4 * , MS ;   Chris J Kennedy   3, 5 , MPA, PhD ;   Travis T Mallard   1, 2, 3 , PhD ;   Zhaowen Liu   1, 2, 3, 6 , PhD ;   Phuong Linh Vu   7 ;   Yen-Chen Anne Feng   1, 2, 3, 8 , MS, ScD ;   Tian Ge   1, 2, 3, 5 , PhD ;   Maria V Petukhova   9 , PhD ;   Ronald C Kessler   9 , PhD ;   Matthew K Nock   10, 11, 12 , PhD ;   Jordan W Smoller   1, 2, 3, 5 , MD, ScD

1 Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

2 Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States

3 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

4 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

5 Center for Precision Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

6 School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

7 Harvard College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

8 Institute of Health Data Analytics and Statistics, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

9 Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

10 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

11 Mental Health Research Program, Franciscan Children’s, Brighton, MA, United States

12 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Jordan W Smoller, MD, ScD
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