An epidemiological perspective on the future of direct-to-consumer personal genome testing

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Janssens, A Cecile J W ^a   van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MONOGENIC DISORDER; PERSONAL GENOME TESTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 79953881294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-1-10     Document Type: Article

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