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Special issues in genetic testing for Alzheimer disease.

Genetic testing - 1 Jan 1999

Greely H T

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Genetic testing for Alzheimer disease (AD) raises two issues that are, thus far, unusual. First, genetic testing of dementia patients for diagnostic purposes necessarily leads to information of some predictive significance for the patient's family members. What information about the test results should be disclosed to whom needs careful consideration. Testing for a patient's apolipoprotein E (APOE) allele status...

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PMID: 10464585
DOI: 10.1089/gte.1999.3.115

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