Figure 1.

Flow diagram showing the study selection process and classification of identified full-text articles. A total of 837 articles were identified as potentially eligible in the initial search. After the screening of titles and abstracts and the removal of duplicates, 152 articles met the eligibility criteria and were selected for further analysis. The full-text review identified 40 empirical studies, 15 articles analyzing informed consent documents and 97 discussions/opinion papers. The empirical studies described different stakeholders' perspectives on biobank-based genomic research. Depending on the group that was interviewed, studies were subdivided into the following categories: ‘patients' (n=12), ‘professionals' (n=8), ‘public' (n=14), ‘patients/professionals' (n=1), ‘patients/public' (n=3) and ‘professionals/public' (n=2).