Table 1: Demographic characteristics of the eMERGE3 Incidental Findings cohort and 9 contributing clinical sites.
Self-reported race/ethnicity derives from multiple-choice selection of US Census-standardized terms and does not fully capture the complexity of participant racial identity. CCHMC = Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; KPW/UW = Kaiser Permanente Washington / University of Washington; CHOP = Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Sequencing Centers (SCs, italics): The Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center [BCM-HGSC], Houston TX; Broad Institute and Partners Laboratory for Molecular Medicine [LMM], Cambridge, MA.
| Self-reported race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eMERGE Site | N | Hispanic or Latinx | Black or African-American | Asian | American Indian, Alaska Native, or Pacific Islander | White | Unknown / Not Reported | % Female | Median Age (yrs) | Age Range (yrs) |
| CCHMC | 2956 | 24 | 1041 | 16 | 2 | 1697 | 176 | 34 | 20 | 4 – 85 |
| Harvard | 2492 | 146 | 145 | 72 | 0 | 2038 | 91 | 57 | 61 | 22 – 100 |
| KPW/UW | 2495 | 43 | 51 | 996 | 51 | 1297 | 57 | 61 | 65 | 32 – 104 |
| SC:LMM | 7943 | |||||||||
| CHOP | 2972 | 126 | 1171 | 42 | 3 | 1524 | 106 | 21 | 18 | 7 – 32 |
| Columbia | 2566 | 636 | 302 | 198 | 9 | 1072 | 349 | 55 | 55 | 21 – 97 |
| Mayo | 3018 | 500 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 2390 | 97 | 48 | 65 | 29 – 74 |
| Northwestern | 2984 | 167 | 405 | 132 | 7 | 2257 | 16 | 62 | 65 | 21 – 98 |
| Vanderbilt | 2432 | 24 | 153 | 23 | 3 | 2205 | 24 | 47 | 69 | 27 – 97 |
| SC:BCM-HGSC | 13972 | |||||||||
| TOTAL | 21915 | 1666 | 3279 | 1497 | 77 | 14480 | 916 | 53.0 | 62 | 4 – 104 |