The complexity of reproductive decision-making in asymptomatic carriers of the Huntington mutation

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 453-462

  Decruyenaere, Marleen ^a   Evers Kiebooms, Gerry ^a   Boogaerts, Andrea ^a   Philippe, Kristien ^a   Demyttenaere, Koen ^a   Dom, René ^a   Vandenberghe, Wim ^a   Fryns, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; CHILDLESSNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH BELIEF; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ABORTION, INDUCED; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MUTATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33947666637     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201774     Document Type: Article

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