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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2018 Feb 1;20(10):1186–1195. doi: 10.1038/gim.2017.243

Table 2:

Participant characteristics

Characteristic N (%) Characteristic N (%)

Age CSER investigator 20 (43%)
    20–29 4 (7%)
    30–39 18 (33%) CSER Study Affiliation*
    40–49 10 (19%)     BASIC3 7 (13%)
    50–59 14 (26%)     ClinSeq 6 (11%)
    60–69 7 (13%)     HudsonAlpha 4 (7%)
    70+ 1 (2%)     MedSeq 7 (13%)
    MI-ONCOSEQ 6 (11%)
Gender     NCGENES 8 (15%)
    Male 25 (46%)     NEXT Medicine 4 (7%)
    Female 29 (54%)     NextGen 3 (6%)
    PediSeq 6 (11%)
Race     Other 4 (7%)
    White non-hispanic 43 (80%)
    Asian 7 (13%) Rating of genetics training
    Other 4 (7%)     Not at all sufficient 2 (4%)
    Somewhat insufficient 5 (9%)
    Neutral 3 (6%)
Specialty*     Somewhat sufficient 15 (28%)
    Genetic counseling 21 (39%)     More than sufficient 29 (54%)
    Medical genetics 17 (31%)
    Pediatrics 14 (26%) Tests ordered/disclosed within 12 months
    Oncology 11 (20%)     Genetic test 50 (93%)
    Internal medicine 6 (11%)     Genomic sequencing 51 (94%)
    Cardiology 4 (7%)
    Other 9 (17%) Practice setting*
    Hospital 41 (76%)
    Clinic 16 (30%)
    Other 12 (22%)
*

Participants could endorse more than one response option.

Open-ended responses included neurology/neurogenetics (4), hematology (2), clinical genetics (1), biochemical genetics (1), and “pediatric, preconception, prenatal and cancer” (1).