Disease Knowledge and Attitudes toward Predictive Testing and Prenatal Diagnosis in Families with Machado-Joseph Disease from the Azores Islands (Portugal)

Manuela Lima,Teresa Kay,João Vasconcelos,Luisa Mota-Vieira,Carlos González,A. Peixoto,Augusto Abade,P. MacLeod,R Graca,Jorge A. Santos

Disease Knowledge and Attitudes toward Predictive Testing and Prenatal Diagnosis in Families with Machado-Joseph Disease from the Azores Islands (Portugal)

2001

Manuela Lima
Teresa Kay
João Vasconcelos
Luisa Mota-Vieira
Carlos González
A. Peixoto
Augusto Abade
P. MacLeod
R Graca
Jorge A. Santos

Objective: Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) reaches its highest prevalence world-wide in the Azores, thus constituting a public health problem in these islands. The aim of the study was

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Family medicine
Genetic testing
Prenatal diagnosis
Disease
Predictive testing
Public health
Machado–Joseph disease
Medicine
Genetic counseling
Demography

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