Table 1. Characteristics of survey respondents.
| Number of Respondents (%) | |||||
| Variable | Full Sample | NHGRI Subsample | Genetics Subsample | Clinical Subsample | Nonclinical Subsample |
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 342 (29%) | 42 (27%) | 162 (31%) | 73 (35%) | 65 (24%) |
| Male | 809 (69%) | 111 (71%) | 362 (68%) | 135 (64%) | 201 (75%) |
| Highest degree | |||||
| MD | 162 (14%) | 14 (9%) | 37 (7%) | 97 (46%) | 14 (5%) |
| PhD | 873 (75%) | 121 (77%) | 436 (82%) | 84 (40%) | 232 (87%) |
| MD-PhD | 101 (9%) | 13 (8%) | 40 (8%) | 27 (13%) | 21 (8%) |
| Trained in the US | |||||
| Yes | 930 (80%) | 133 (85%) | 431 (81%) | 161 (77%) | 205 (76%) |
| No | 226 (19%) | 21 (13%) | 96 (18%) | 48 (23%) | 61 (23%) |
| Years since highest degree | |||||
| 0–5 | 32 (3%) | 5 (3%) | 11 (2%) | 11 (5%) | 5 (2%) |
| 6–10 | 117 (10%) | 15 (10%) | 53 (10%) | 33 (16%) | 16 (6%) |
| 11–20 | 354 (30%) | 51 (32%) | 151 (28%) | 61 (29%) | 91 (34%) |
| 21–30 | 310 (27%) | 45 (29%) | 156 (29%) | 54 (26%) | 55 (21%) |
| 31–40 | 231 (20%) | 26 (17%) | 108 (20%) | 30 (14%) | 67 (25%) |
| >40 | 101 (9%) | 8 (5%) | 42 (8%) | 19 (9%) | 32 (12%) |
| Academic rank | |||||
| Full professor | 567 (49%) | 90 (57%) | 262 (49%) | 75 (36%) | 140 (52%) |
| Associate professor | 299 (26%) | 40 (25%) | 136 (26%) | 49 (23%) | 74 (28%) |
| Assistant professor | 237 (20%) | 20 (13%) | 113 (21%) | 57 (27%) | 47 (18%) |
| Instructor or Lecturer | 33 (2%) | 1 (0.6%) | 7 (1%) | 24 (11%) | 1 (0.4%) |
| Publications in last 3 years | |||||
| 0–5 | 337 (29%) | 16 (10%) | 174 (33%) | 75 (36%) | 72 (27%) |
| 6–15 | 484 (42%) | 62 (39%) | 229 (43%) | 75 (36%) | 118 (44%) |
| >15 | 264 (23%) | 63 (40%) | 96 (18%) | 47 (22%) | 58 (22%) |
| Human subjects research in last 3 years | |||||
| Yes | 446 (38%) | 73 (47%) | 167 (32%) | 150 (71%) | 56 (21%) |
| No | 711 (61%) | 82 (52%) | 360 (68%) | 60 (29%) | 209 (78%) |
| Sample size | 1,165 | 157 | 530 | 210 | 268 |
Note: Percentages may not sum to 100% because of item non-response.