Survey of European clinical geneticists on awareness, experiences and attitudes towards direct-to-consumer genetic testing

Genome Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Howard, Heidi Carmen ^a   Borry, Pascal ^b  

^a Faculté de Médecine Centre Hospitalo universitaire   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIRECT TO CONSUMER GENETIC TESTING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICIST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

EID: 84878008595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm449     Document Type: Article

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