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Public understandings of genetics and health.

Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 2010

Condit C M

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This review of adult public understandings of genetics related to health indicates that the public's understandings overlap with those of professionals in some areas, but not others. Specifically, the majority of the world's people who have been studied understand genetics through the lens of her...

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PMID: 20092586
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2009.01316.x

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