Ancestry Testing and the Practice of Genetic Counseling

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 6-20

  Kirkpatrick, Brianne E ^a   Rashkin, Misha D ^b  

^a WatershedDNA LLC   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Databases; Direct to consumer; Genetic counseling; Personal genomics; Third party tool

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL GENETICS; CONSUMER; DATA BASE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84990849776     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: 15733599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-016-0014-2     Document Type: Article

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