Opening the psychological black box in genetic counseling. The psychological impact of DNA testing is predicted by the counselees' perception, the medical impact by the pathogenic or uninformative BRCA1/2-result.

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Published in Psychooncology on November 11, 2010

Authors

Joël Vos1, Encarna Gómez-García, Jan C Oosterwijk, Fred H Menko, Reinoud D Stoel, Christi J van Asperen, Anna M Jansen, Anne M Stiggelbout, Aad Tibben

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Genetics, Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. j.vos@lumc.nl

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