ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Genet.

Sec. ELSI in Science and Genetics

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fgene.2025.1587774

This article is part of the Research TopicInsights in ELSI in Science and Genetics 2024-2025View all 4 articles

Religious Factors Predict Support for Genomic Medicine More Strongly than Politics, Education, or Trust: A Survey of 4,939 Adults in the United States

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
  • 2Biola University, La Mirada, California, United States

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Data from this study are available through the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse. [We will provide a DOI at time of acceptance.] Ethics Declaration: The study was approved (IRB #202201153) by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Washington University in St. Louis. All participants were provided with an information sheet and consented to the study by clicking a survey button. Reporting Checklist: We reported survey findings using the CROSS Checklist (A Consensus-Based Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies (CROSS).

Keywords: ELSI, Genomics, survey research, Ethics, Religion & Public Life

Received: 04 Mar 2025; Accepted: 16 May 2025.

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* Correspondence: James M DuBois, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States

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