Screening for haemochromatosis - Producing or preventing illness?

Lancet

Volumn 366, Issue 9482, 2005, Pages 269-271

  Adams, Paul C ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ANXIETY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; COMMUNITY CARE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; IRON OVERLOAD; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PHLEBOTOMY; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 22544441589     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66384-2     Document Type: Note

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