Diagnosis of Huntington disease: a model for the stages of psychological response based on experience of a predictive testing program.

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Published in Am J Med Genet on September 01, 1993

Authors

M Bloch1, S Adam, A Fuller, B Kremer, J P Welch, S Wiggins, P Whyte, M Huggins, J Theilmann, M R Hayden

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Canada.

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