Why test children for adult-onset genetic diseases?

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 609-616

  Rhodes, Rosamond ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult onset genetic diseases; Genetic diseases; Genetic testing; Predictive testing

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHILD; COLON POLYPOSIS; CONFIDENTIALITY; GENETIC DISORDER; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; ONSET AGE; OVARY CANCER; PARENT COUNSELING; PARENTAL CONSENT; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MINORS; PARENTAL CONSENT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 33744812397     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 00272507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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