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- Title
Presymptomatic Diagnosis of Delayed-Onset Disease With Linked DNA Markers.
- Authors
Brandt, Jason; Quaid, Kimberly A.; Folstein, Susan E.; Garber, Paul; Maestri, Nancy E.; Abbott, Margaret H.; Slavney, Phillip R.; Franz, Mary L.; Kasch, Laura; Kazazian Jr., Haig H.
- Abstract
Reports on the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's initiation of a voluntary program of presymptomatic genetic testing for Huntington's disease for persons at 50 percent risk. Absence of severe depressive reactions; Suggestion that people who receive genetic test results cope well, al least over the short term, when the testing is performed in a clinical context.
- Subjects
HUNTINGTON disease; GENETICS; GENETIC markers; GENETIC disorders
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1989, Vol 261, Issue 21, p3108
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1989.03420210056016