About the Authors

Adolfo Sequeira

Current address: Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Firoza Mamdani

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Carl Ernst

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marquis P. Vawter

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

William E. Bunney

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Veronique Lebel

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sonia Rehal

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tim Klempan

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alain Gratton

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Chawki Benkelfat

Affiliation Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Guy A. Rouleau

Affiliation Ste Justine Hospital, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Naguib Mechawar

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gustavo Turecki

gustavo.turecki@mcgill.ca

Affiliation McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS FM GT. Performed the experiments: AS FM CE MV WEB VLL SR GT. Analyzed the data: AS FM CE MV WEB VLL SR TAK AG GAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CE MV WEB TAK CB GAR NM. Wrote the paper: AS FM GT.