Partners of mutation-carriers for Huntington's disease: Forgotten persons?

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1077-1085

  Decruyenaere, Marleen ^a,c   Evers Kiebooms, Gerry ^a   Boogaerts, Andrea ^a   Demyttenaere, Koen ^a   Dom, René ^a   Fryns, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CENTER FOR HUMAN GENETICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disenfranchised grief; Huntington's disease; Partners; Predictive testing; Psychological impact

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; GRIEF; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARRIER STATE; DEPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; GRIEF; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 27244446475     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201462     Document Type: Article

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