Mental health and quality of life after genetic testing for huntington disease: A long-term effect study in Germany

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 146, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2078-2085

  Licklederer, Claudia ^a   Wolff, Gerhard ^b   Barth, Jürgen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coping; Depression; Genetic testing; Huntington disease; Long term effect; Quality of life; Social network

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 49449101795     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32423     Document Type: Article

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