title: Finno-Ugrians, blood types, and suicide: comment on Voracek, Fisher, and Marusic.
abstract: In a sample of 20 European nations, the distribution of blood types provided a better explanation for the association of longitude with suicide rates than did the percentage of Finno-Ugrian ethnic group.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Suicide, RR41, 5 Stonegate Court, Blackwood, NJ 08012-5356, USA. lesterd@stockton.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
authors.forename: Sergei V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Kondrichin
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System / Q000502:physiology*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary / Q000453:epidemiology; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System