A decade of genetic counseling in frontotemporal dementia affected families: Few counseling requests and much familial opposition to testing

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 350-356

  Riedijk, S R ^a   Niermeijer, M F N ^b   Dooijes, D ^a   Tibben, A ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Family opposition; Frontotemporal dementia; Genetic counseling; Presymptomatic testing; Separation individuation

Indexed keywords

FAMILY ATTITUDE; FAMILY COUNSELING; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INDIVIDUALIZATION; REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY;

DEMENTIA; FAMILY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 68149131822     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: 15733599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-009-9222-3     Document Type: Review

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