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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 heredity, not in terms of the structural and functional nature of genes. Public understandings of hereditary processes are...

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

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