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Letter to the Editor: Response to Cox (2018)

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  1. Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Teresa Gavaruzzi & Lorella Lotto

  2. Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Alessandra Tasso

  3. Unit of Hereditary Cancer, IRCCS AOU San Martino, IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

    Marzena Franiuk & Liliana Varesco

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Gavaruzzi, T., Tasso, A., Franiuk, M. et al. Letter to the Editor: Response to Cox (2018). J Genet Counsel 27, 1314–1315 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10897-018-0279-8

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