“We Don’t Know Her History, Her Background”: Adoptive Parents’ Perspectives on Whole Genome Sequencing Results

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-77

  Crouch, Julia ^a   Yu, Joon Ho ^b   Shankar, Aditi G ^b   Tabor, Holly K ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Ancestry; Autonomy; Direct to consumer genetic testing; Exome sequencing; Return of results; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; EXOME; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PARENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOPTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; EXOME; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS;

EID: 84930695419     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: 15733599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-014-9738-z     Document Type: Article

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