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Genetic counseling and testing for Huntington's disease: A historical review

13 May 2016

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This manuscript describes the ways in which genetic counseling has evolved since John Pearson and Sheldon Reed first promoted "a genetic education" in the 1950s as a voluntary, non-directive clinical tool for permitting individual decision making. It reviews how the emergence of Huntington's disease (HD) registries and patient support organizations, genetic testing, and the discovery of a disease-causing CAG...

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PMID: 27174011
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32453

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