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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2015 Nov 19;18(7):705–711. doi: 10.1038/gim.2015.149

Table 3.

Ethical Principles in Support of an Obligation to Disclose

Strongly agree or agree
Duty to warn 658 (84%)
Respect for autonomy 626 (80%)
Beneficence 615 (79%)
Professional responsibility 520 (67%)
Public trust in research 450 (58%)
Right to know 418 (54%)
Institutional reputation 278 (36%)
Legal liability 267 (34%)
Participants = patients 264 (34%)
Reciprocity 261 (34%)