Genetic testing: Clinical and personal utility

Virtual Mentor

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 604-609

  Mills, Rachel A ^a   Haga, Susanne B ^a   Ginsburg, Geoffrey S ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROGNOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH;

COUNSELING; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875077596     PISSN: 19377010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.8.ecas1-1208     Document Type: Article

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