Predictive testing for Huntington's disease: Relationship with partners after testing

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-31

  Decruyenaere, Marleen ^a   Evers Kiebooms, G ^a   Cloostermans, T ^a   Boogaerts, A ^a   Demyttenaere, K ^a   Dom, R ^a   Fryns, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Family dynamics; Huntington's disease; Partners; Predictive testing; Psychosocial consequences

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PEDIGREE; PROGNOSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 1642514709     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j..2004.00168.x     Document Type: Article

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