Testing the test - Why pursue a better test for Huntington disease?

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 117 B, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-85

  Timman, Reinier ^a,b   Maat Kievit, Anneke ^b   Brouwer DudokdeWit, Christine ^c   Zoeteweij, Moniek ^a   Breuning, Martijn H ^a   Tibben, Aad ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Ctr Psychother Res/Counseling   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Huntington disease; Mutation test; Predictive testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RELIABILITY; WELLBEING;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0041321272     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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