Experiences and attitudes of residents regarding a community-based genome cohort study in Japan: a population-based, cross-sectional study

Table 1 Demographic awareness of the Nagahama study, self-rate understanding of terminology, and willingness toward drug susceptibility genetic testing

	Male (n = 704)		Female (n = 769)
	%	n	%	n
Age group (years)
30–39	16.1	112	20.7	159
40–49	20.1	140	22.8	175
50–59	23.8	166	26.3	202
60–69	40.0	279	30.2	232
Formal educational period
High school graduate and lower	59.1	392	56.3	414
College and higher	40.9	271	43.8	322
Awareness of the Nagahama study contents
Know more than one content	30.6	210	50.3	381
Know nothing	69.7	483	49.7	376
Self-rated understanding of terminology
High^a	35.7	251	24.1	185
Medium^b	35.1	247	35.0	269
Low^c	28.0	197	38.4	295
Willingness toward drug susceptibility genetic testing (Would you like to donate your DNA for drug susceptibility genetic testing?)
Yes	49.3	339	47.9	360
Neutral	27.2	187	32.0	240
No	23.4	161	20.1	151

^aUnderstanding “gene” and “genome” and understanding “gene” and having heard of “genome”
^bHaving heard of “gene” and “genome” or understanding “gene” and having never known about “genome”
^cHaving of “gene” and not “genome” or having never known about “gene” nor “genome”

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