title: Self-injurious behaviours in people with and without intellectual delay: implications for the genetics of suicide.
abstract: Self-injurious behaviours (SIBs) occur in both people at risk of suicide and in people with intellectual delay, and it may be that the underlying pathologies are shared, at least in part. Genes identified as causative in people with intellectual delay that show SIBs may be the same genes that have an effect on suicide outcome in people without intellectual delay that self-injure.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA. ernst@chgr.mgh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.forename: Cynthia C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Morton
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Gusella
mesh_terms: D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*