consenting process) are supported. The findings also suggest that the need for strategies to better inform African Americans of opportunities to contribute health information and biological specimens to biorepositories and to better engage researchers and health care providers in efforts to inform, recruit, and support African American men and women willing to participate in health-related genetic research. Without the design of interventions to better inform, recruit, engage, and support the decisions of African Americans (and persons representing other minority population groups) willing to participate in health-related genetic research it would be reasonable to anticipate that current trends relative to their involvement will remain unchanged.
