Predictors of belief that genetic test information about hemochromatosis should be shared with family members

Genetic Testing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-59

  Tucker, Diane C ^a   Acton, Ronald T ^a   Press, Nancy ^b   Ruggiero, Andrea ^c   Reiss, Jacob A ^b   Walker, Ann P ^b   Wenzel, Lari ^d   Harrison, Barbara ^e   Fadojutimi Akinsiku, Margaret ^e   Harrison, Helen ^f   Adams, Paul ^f   Crabb, Jennifer A ^a   Anderson, Roger ^c   Thomson, Elizabeth ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^f HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT FORM 36;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

METIS;

EID: 33645332362     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2006.10.50     Document Type: Article

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