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SUBMITTER: Niculescu AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4357859 | biostudies-other | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Niculescu A B AB Levey D D Le-Niculescu H H Niculescu E E Kurian S M SM Salomon D D
Molecular psychiatry 20150113 3
Blood biomarkers may provide a scientifically useful and clinically usable peripheral signal in psychiatry, as they have been doing for other fields of medicine. Jumping to premature conclusions, negative or positive, can create confusion in this field. Reproducibility is a hallmark of good science. We discuss some recent examples from this dynamic field, and show some new data in support of previously published biomarkers for suicidality (SAT1, MARCKS and SKA2). Methodological clarity and rigor ...[more]