Genetic Testing: New Challenges in the Healthcare of Women

Autor: Wera Hofmann
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Women's Health. 9:513-515
ISSN: 1745-5065
DOI: 10.2217/whe.13.56
Popis: Dr Wera Hofmann is an expert in biochemistry and has over 12 years of human genetic diagnostics experience. Until 2006, she supervised a diagnostic unit for BRCA gene testing at the Interdisciplinary Center for Hereditary Breast Cancer (Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany). She has also been the Managing Director of the Professional Association of German Human Geneticists, BVDH, which is a trade association. In 2008, Hofmann became a Medical Director at LifeCodexx (Konstanz, Germany), where she has worked on the development of a noninvasive prenatal diagnostic test that detects chromosomal aneuploidies in fetuses.
Databáze: OpenAIRE