Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis

The Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis proposes to link genetic ties originating among Finno-Ugric peoples to high rate of suicide, claiming an allele common among them is responsible.

Suicide rate in Hungary (1950–2005), 1983: 45.3 suicides per 100,000 people, it was the second highest rate (after Lithuania, 1995: 45.6[1]) of an independent state in recorded human history. Higher rates were only measured in regions like Greenland or the Canadian territories.

Mari and Udmurts have been found to have a three times higher suicide rate than Finns and Hungarians. It has been thus theorized that such a possible allele may have arisen in those populations.

However, contrary to the hypothesis, available contemporary (1990–1994) suicide rates in the United States were uniformly negatively associated with the proportion of the population comprising people of self-reported Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovakian, or Ukrainian descent. The findings of this first test outside Europe are therefore conflicting. A proposal based on the geographical study approach is offered to further the progress of investigations into the genetics of suicide.[2]

See also

References
  1. Suicide rate in Lithuania (WHO)
  2. Voracek M (2006). "Ancestry, genes, and suicide: a test of the Finno-Ugrian Suicide Hypothesis in the United States". Perceptual and Motor Skills. 103 (2): 543–50. doi:10.2466/pms.103.2.543-550. PMID 17165419. S2CID 13377495.
  • Voracek M, Loibl LM, Kandrychyn S (June 2007). "Testing the Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis: replication and refinement with regional suicide data from eastern Europe". Perceptual and Motor Skills. 104 (3 Pt 1): 985–94. doi:10.2466/PMS.104.3.985-994. PMID 17688155. S2CID 19673570.
  • Voracek M, Fisher ML, Marusic A (October 2003). "The Finno-Ugrian suicide hypothesis: variation in European suicide rates by latitude and longitude". Perceptual and Motor Skills. 97 (2): 401–6. doi:10.2466/pms.2003.97.2.401. PMID 14620226. S2CID 35277725.
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