Overall, similar to African Americans and other racial/ethnic minorities, our Latino participants expressed salient concerns about trusting and feeling connected to the purpose, methods, and implications of alcohol research collecting biological samples. For instance, Scott and colleagues [12] found that African American interest in genetic testing for alcohol dependence was most often motivated by personal concerns over threat of the disease and a desire to provide information to children, and apprehensions related to participation were often related to concerns over the accuracy of testing and results. Our participants voiced similar motivations related to a desire to gain personally relevant health information, both for themselves and for their children; but also expressed reservations regarding the trustworthiness of genetic findings and analytic techniques. Perhaps more unique to our sample, participants shared how compelling they felt that genetics research on alcohol was because of the significance of alcohol problems in their local communities. While we did not assess personal or familial experiences with alcohol problems and/or treatment as part of the self-administered survey or focus group discussion, many participants mentioned someone in their
