Clinical validity and utility of genetic testing in heritable disorders

Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 147-156

  Javaher, Poupak ^a   Schmidtke, Jörg ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical validity; Clinical utility; Clinical validity; Genetic testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893194771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3919-4_15     Document Type: Chapter

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