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Familial genetic risks: how can we better navigate patient confidentiality and appropriate risk disclosure to relatives?
- Correspondence to Edward S Dove, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK; edward.dove{at}ed.ac.uk
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Familial genetic risks: how can we better navigate patient confidentiality and appropriate risk disclosure to relatives?
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- Received October 26, 2018
- Revised March 7, 2019
- Accepted March 12, 2019
- First published May 23, 2019.
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August 30, 2019
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