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Medical geneticists' duty to warn at‐risk relatives for genetic disease

29 Apr 2003

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A patient who refuses to notify their relatives of potential at-risk status brings a genetics provider to face conflicting ethical principles and ill-defined legal precedent. Genetics professionals' views on the disclosure of patient information to at-risk relatives have remained largely unexamined. Prior analyses have been limited to identifying factors contributing to genetics providers' self-predicted...

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PMID: 12838558
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.20227

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