On behalf of Generation Scotland

The aim of this second stage of the public consultation of Generation Scotland’s “Scottish Family Health Study ” (GS: SFHS – see Box 1) is to explore with a wide, range of audiences issues relating to the design, conduct and use of the family-based population DNA databank. In this paper we report on the research methods we used for the consultation. Reports on the findings from all sections of the consultations that we discuss below will be available shortly. This work follows on from earlier research that involved expert reviews of the ethical