A government-sponsored study presented at the meeting seemed to back her assertion. The National Human Genome Research Institute's Multiplex Initiative found that people who underwent tests for eight common diseases were highly satisfied with the results – regardless of what they showed – and that they felt as if they understood the tests’ implications and limitations.
The 266 people who took the tests tended to have more positive than negative emotions in the wake of receiving results, said Colleen McBride, Ph.D., the study's designer and a senior investigator at the institute’s Social and Behavioral Research Branch.