Recurrence risks in undiagnosed mental retardation
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Recurrence risks in undiagnosed mental retardation.
EDITOR—In 1998, Crow and Tolmie 1 drew attention to the problem of giving recurrence risks to families with undiag-nosed mental retardation. Published empirical risks vary widely and are based on data which have been collected in many diVerent ways and are decades old. Clinical practice in the UK, as derived from their postal survey, 1 showed similarly wide variations. Thus, in a standardised s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Genetics
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1468-6244
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.37.12.e45