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. 2023 Apr 20;9:e43126. doi: 10.2196/43126

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©Annie T Chen, Jennifer Huey, Sandra Coe, Jailanie Kaganovsky, Emily A Malouf, Heather D Evans, Jill Daker, Elizabeth Harper, Olivia Fordiani, Emma E Lowe, Caileigh McGraw Oldroyd, Ashlyn Price, Kristlynn Roth, Julie Stoddard, Jill N Crandell, Brian H Shirts. Originally published in JMIR Cancer (https://cancer.jmir.org), 20.04.2023.

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Connecting with others and engagement in study activities. (A) Participants connected with others who do share variants. (B) Participants who do not share variants with other study participants. Study activities: those who sought genealogy assistance from the Brigham Young University Center for Family History and Genealogy; those who requested or had already obtained AncestryDNA or MyHeritageDNA testing; and those who posted information about their variant on the web through the Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Share Your Mutation message board, Facebook, or another web-based forum.