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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Law Med Ethics. 2015 Fall;43(3):476–485. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12290

Table 1.

Participant designees for return of genetic information after participant death, by participant sex.

Participant sex Return to spouse
N (%)
Return to male biological relative
N (%)
Return to female biological relative
N (%)
Declined to state a designee Total
N
Female 17 (52%) 2 (6%) 9 (27%) 5 (15%) 33
Male 30 (67%) 3 (7%) 11 (24%) 1 (2%) 45
Total 47 (60%) 5 (6%) 20 (16%) 6 (8%) 78