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Warning Patients’ Relatives of Genetic Risks: Policy Approaches

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: As an increasing number of genetic tests for specific early- and late-onset disorders move from research to the clinical setting, health care professionals are faced with new challenges or, alternatively, with novel twists on age-old ethical dilemmas. A finding that an individual carries a deleterious mutation can indicate that his or her relatives are at an increased risk of being affected by the same genetic disorder.

Source: Érudit documents and data repository (Érudit Consortium, University of Montreal)

Authors: Mireille Lacroix, Béatrice Godard, Bartha Maria Knoppers

Language: English

Topic: Medical and Health Sciences Research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: World Health Organization, British Medical Association, University of Oxford, European Commission

OpenAlex ID: W1496682751

FWCI: 0.699

Cites: 10

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10