Ruhl Grayson L, Hazel James W, Clayton Ellen Wright, Malin Bradley A
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2020 Mar 4;2019:774-783. eCollection 2019.
Direct to consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) is an emerging service that allows individuals to have their DNA tested without having to consult a healthcare provider. DTC-GT can provide insight into various aspects about an individual, including their health and ancestry. However, testing may pose privacy risks and yield distressing results. Despite the growing popularity of DTC-GT, public attitudes toward such services remain largely ill-defined. Using Amazon Mechanical Turk, we administered a web-based survey to over 1,000 individuals to obtain intuition into public attitudes about DTC-GT. S urvey questions were grounded in a literature review of people's views about DTC-GT. The results of the survey indicated that respondents were interested in DTC-GT as a possible way to gain insight about health, ancestry, and family relationships, as well as advance research. Despite this, respondents were concerned that DTC-GT companies and other users of their DTC-GT data would infringe upon their privacy.
直接面向消费者的基因检测（DTC-GT）是一项新兴服务，它使个人无需咨询医疗保健提供者即可进行DNA检测。DTC-GT可以深入了解个人的各个方面，包括他们的健康状况和祖先信息。然而，检测可能会带来隐私风险并产生令人苦恼的结果。尽管DTC-GT越来越受欢迎，但公众对这类服务的态度在很大程度上仍不明确。我们通过亚马逊土耳其机器人平台，对1000多名个人进行了一项基于网络的调查，以了解公众对DTC-GT的态度。调查问卷的问题基于对人们对DTC-GT看法的文献综述。调查结果表明，受访者对DTC-GT感兴趣，认为它是一种了解健康、祖先信息和家庭关系以及推动研究的可能途径。尽管如此，受访者担心DTC-GT公司及其DTC-GT数据的其他使用者会侵犯他们的隐私。
