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Life insurance and breast cancer risk assessment: Adverse selection, genetic testing decisions, and discrimination

✍ Scribed by Armstrong, Katrina ;Weber, Barbara ;FitzGerald, Genevieve ;Hershey, John C. ;Pauly, Mark V. ;Lemaire, Jean ;Subramanian, Krupa ;Asch, David A.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 74 KB
Volume: 120A
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.20025

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