Genetic susceptibility and Alzheimer's disease: The penetrance and uptake of genetic knowledge

Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility

Volumn 9780813539270, Issue , 2006, Pages 123-154

  Lock, Margaret ^a   Lloyd, Stephanie ^a   Prest, Janalyn ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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