Low rates of african american participation in genetic counseling and testing for BRCA1/2 mutations: Racial disparities or just a difference?

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 676-683

  Halbert, Chanita Hughes ^a   Kessler, Lisa ^b   Collier, Aliya ^b   Weathers, Benita ^b   Stopfer, Jill ^c   Domchek, Susan ^c   McDonald, Jasmine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; BRCA1 2; Disparities; Genetic Counseling; Participation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; NEGRO; OVARY TUMOR; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 84867404708     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: 15733599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-012-9485-y     Document Type: Article

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