New "first families": The psychosocial impact of new genetic technologies

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-190

  Fanos, Joanna H ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EXOME; FAMILY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; NEWBORN SCREENING; NOTE; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; RARE DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SCIENTIST; SIBLING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUPPORT GROUP; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; X LINKED SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EMOTIONS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; RARE DISEASES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84856736754     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2011.17     Document Type: Note

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