Table 2.

Circumstances Wherein HRECS Would be Trusted to Determine Future Use of Genomic Data.

Circumstance type	Frequency (n)	Percentage (%)
If future research was beneficial	1892	62.8
If I was confident my privacy would be protected	1847	61.3
If I was going to be told about results significant to my welfare	1518	50.4
If I had the ability to opt-out of future projects	1368	45.4
If I am not going to lose any potential financial benefits from the data	1039	34.5
If the HREC classified the future project as ‘low risk’	1037	34.4
If people like me had been asked their views of the proposed research, and thought it was reasonable	828	27.5
If obtaining my consent was impractical	616	20.4
If the HREC thought I was likely to have consented if I had been asked	488	16.2
Other	34	1.1
I would not trust the HREC to decide this	284	9.4