Evaluating the impact of genetic counseling and testing with signal detection methods

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-27

  Palmer, Christina G S ^a,c   Hadley, Donald W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier testing; Genetic counseling; HNPCC; Recursive partitioning; ROC analysis; Signal detection; Susceptibility testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADULT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; EMPLOYMENT; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; PSYCHOLOGY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 17444372361     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-005-1497-4     Document Type: Article

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