"Suicide victims" brains bear chemical scars of child abuse

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The study is the first to implicate faulty protein production with child abuse and suicide. The researchers find that child abuse can leave lasting scars on its victims, both physical and psychological. It may also leave chemical marks in the brains of its victims who will later kill themselves. In the brains of suicide victims, early abuse marks genes that encode ribosomal RNA, key gears in the cellular machinery that makes proteins.

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