Communication of clinically useful next-generation sequencing results to at-risk relatives of deceased research participants: Toward active disclosure?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 4164-4165

  Battistuzzi, Linda ^a   Ciliberti, Rosagemma ^a   Bruno, William ^a   Turchetti, Daniela ^b   Varesco, Liliana ^c   De Stefano, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AT RISK RELATIVE; BENEFICENCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COUNSELING; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC RISK; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LETTER; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; ETHICS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; NOTE;

DISCLOSURE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84891709193     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.52.1906     Document Type: Letter

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