Table 2.
Interviewed participants and subsequent family communication regarding medical actions.
| Gene | Participant # | Immediate family | Extended family | Family follow up with doctor |
Family tested |
Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRCA1 | 14 | Brother, parents, sister | Uncles, female cousins (2) | Female cousins (2), sister | ||
| BRCA1 | 15 | Brother, mother, father | No | “So, I brought this up to family members. And I have to say that they weren’t like super receptive.” | ||
| BRCA1 | 16 | Wife | No | |||
| BRCA2 | 8 | Daughter, wife | Daughter, wife | |||
| BRCA2 | 11 | Parents | Aunt, all cousins on that side | No | No | |
| BRCA2 | 10 | Father, three sisters, | No | No | “They (siblings) didn’t really seem moved by the information.” | |
| MSH6 | 12 (adopted) | Mother, Step mother | No | 12 (adopted) | ||
| APC | 17 | Parents, sister | No | No | ||
| RET(MEN2A) | 6 | Daughter, two sisters | Daughter, one sister | |||
| TNNT2 | 4 | Husband, children, parents, brother | No | No | ||
| DSP | 3 | Wife, Father, sister | No | No | ||
| DSG2 | 5 | Sister | No | No | ||
| DSG2 | 9 | Parents | Uncles, grandparents | No | No | |
| DSG2 | 5 | Sister | No | No | ||
| KCNQ1 | 1 | Brother, wife, mother | Unsure | Unsure | “…family doc did not recommend anybody else in the family be tested for Long QT.” | |
| KCNQ1 | 2 | Brother, sister | No | No | ||
| SCN5A | 7 | Daughter, parents, brother, sisters | No | Plan to test daughter | ||
| SCN5A | 13 | Husband, children, sisters, father | No | |||
| APOB | 18 | Daughters | Nieces, Nephews | Unsure | Unsure | “I plan to follow up with them again” |