U. partners with pharmaceutical company to investigate link between suicide risk, genetics

SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah announced a new research and funding partner Friday in its efforts to study the connection between genetic variations and a person's risk for suicide.Janssen Research & Development, a Belgium-based pharmaceutical company, is now onboard with the Utah Suicide Genetics Project, said U. science writer Stacy Kish."Janssen will collaborate with the U. to characterize DNA from people who died by suicide," Kish said in a statement. "The team will jointl