Feasibility of collecting disease reports from relatives for genetic epidemiologic investigations

Human Heredity

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 351-357

  Romitti, Paul A ^a   Bums, Trudy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Congenital anomalies; Epidemiology; Family history; Human genetics; Participation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE MALFORMATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; RELATIVE; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 0030729651     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000154434     Document Type: Article

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