TAY-SACHS SCREENING - MOTIVES FOR PARTICIPATING AND KNOWLEDGE OF GENETICS AND PROBABILITY
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 28 (6) , 537-549
Abstract
A highly-educated, socially aware group of persons presented themselves for Tay-Sachs screening. Although the participants knew that Tay-Sachs is a serious disease and that Jewish people are vulnerable, few of them knew much about the genetics of the disease, its frequency, or the incidence of the carrier state. This experience of screening for Tay-Sachs carriers suggested the need for physicians to learn the relation of genetics to preventive medicine and for the public to learn more about human biology.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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