professionals and primary care practitioners who come into regular contact with a range of consumers and who may be seen as less intimidating or distant than researchers in university settings.Family involvement.In publications addressing the ethics of psychiatric genetic research, there is a dearth of information from the participants’ perspective on the impact of family involvement in their willingness to participate in genetic research. Among Blacks, there may be even greater stigma surrounding mental illness, and therefore getting family members to participate in genetic research may present a challenge. More research is needed to examine the ways in which family involvement affects potential participants’ willingness to participate in genetic studies of mental illness.Follow-up with participants.Many publications are written stylistically for scientific journals, making them inaccessible to the layperson. Following up participants with a brief summary of findings, written in jargon-free language, might not only validate their present contribution to research, but also make them more willing to participate in future studies. In addition, subjects need to be informed that while results may not contain any information that will be personally useful to them, the research findings are often used to generate knowledge that will inform future efforts in preventive and therapeutic
