Genetic counseling: Clinical and ethical challenges

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue , 1998, Pages 547-559

  Mahowald, M B ^a   Verp, M S ^a   Anderson, R R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ethics; Genetic counseling; Genetic information; Genetic testing; Nondirective counseling

Indexed keywords

GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0032423749     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.32.1.547     Document Type: Review

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