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Why test children for adult-onset genetic diseases?

The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York - 1 May 2006

Rhodes Rosamond

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The genetics community has developed guidelines recommending that predictive testing of children for adult-onset genetic conditions should be withheld. Genetics policy makers have maintained that their restriction of predictive testing of children is justified because (a) it shows respect for children's autonomy and confidentiality, (b) it protects children from harm, and (c) there are no compensating benefits of...

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