Research understanding, attitude and awareness towards biobanking: A survey among Italian twin participants to a genetic epidemiological study

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Toccaceli, Virgilia ^a   Fagnani, Corrado ^a   Nisticò, Lorenza ^a   D'Ippolito, Cristina ^a   Giannantonio, Lorenzo ^a   Brescianini, Sonia ^a   Stazi, Maria Antonietta ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BIOBANKING; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA DONATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; TWINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BLOOD DONORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE BANKS; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 67649827909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-10-4     Document Type: Article

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