Genetic Testing in Prion Disease: Psychological Consequences of the Decisions to Know or Not to Know

Purpose: Presymptomatic testing for susceptibility to genetic prion diseases is often delivered in difficult circumstances, as the index case is often dying when a genetic diagnosis is obtained. Since test requests in these diseases are very rare, the factors underlying decisions of relatives to be...

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Main Authors: Mathias Schwartz, Jean-Philippe Brandel, Marie Lise Babonneau, Christilla Boucher, Elodie Schaerer, Stephane Haik, Jean Louis Laplanche, Marcela Gargiulo, Alexandra Durr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2019.00895/full