In contrast to these concerns, a few AA participants wanted to learn the “good stuff,” meaning predictions that a child was going to be a “genius” or a “musician.” In one focus group, a mother countered participants’ worries about receiving WGS results with the following possibility: “What if you got the results when your baby was 6 months old and you found out that your kid was a genius? (AA mother, P13-01).” While return of such information is not feasible, such comments reflected the hope that genetic results could be reassuring, reflect strengths rather than susceptibilities, and in that way, offset return of results with perceived negative connotations: “Just give me the good stuff. Yeah, because if you got bad genes, you got good genes. . . . But don't just give me the bad” (AA mother, P11-01).
