The clinical geneticist and the "new genetics"

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 178, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 458-462

  Haan, Eric A ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL GENETICS; FAMILY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIFACTORIAL GENETIC DISORDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0037723900     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05291.x     Document Type: Review

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