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Attitudes of persons at risk for Huntington disease toward predictive testing

✍ Scribed by Kessler, Seymour ;Field, Tracy ;Worth, Laura ;Mosbarger, Heidi ;Opitz, John M. ;Reynolds, James F.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 829 KB
Volume: 26
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320260204

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