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| Title |
Survey of European clinical geneticists on awareness, experiences and attitudes towards direct-to-consumer genetic testing
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Genome Medicine, May 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/gm449 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Heidi Carmen Howard, Pascal Borry |
| Abstract |
The advent of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing (GT) has sparked a number of debates regarding the scientific validity of tests, their broad health and ethical implications for society as well as their legal status. To date, relatively few empirical studies have been published regarding this phenomenon. We conducted a survey of European clinical geneticists to gauge their awareness of, experiences with, and attitudes towards DTC GT. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 20% |
| Italy | 1 | 7% |
| Kuwait | 1 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| South Africa | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 5 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 8 | 53% |
| Members of the public | 6 | 40% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 100 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 96 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 19 | 19% |
| Researcher | 17 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 15% |
| Unknown | 21 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 26% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 13% |
| Unknown | 23 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 June 2013.
All research outputs
#2,918,977
of 22,711,242 outputs
Outputs from Genome Medicine
#660
of 1,435 outputs
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#26,035
of 195,606 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Medicine
#4
of 16 outputs
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