Patients' Choices for Return of Exome Sequencing Results to Relatives in the Event of Their Death

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 476-485

  Amendola, Laura M ^a,c   Horike Pyne, Martha ^a,d   Trinidad, Susan B ^a   Fullerton, Stephanie M ^a   Evans, Barbara J ^b   Burke, Wylie ^a   Jarvik, Gail P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c University of Texas   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DEATH; ETHICS; EXOME; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEATH; DISCLOSURE; EXOME; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944675871     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jlme.12290     Document Type: Article

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