Figure 3:
Bar chart of results from question 4 which asked ‘Considering the sequence of a transcript, which is the most important to you (choose one):
Both the clinical (N=285) and non-clinical (N=503) respondents had “that the sequence matches the reference..” as most important (44%; 50%). For many in the clinical group, however, it was also important that a transcript did not contain any pathogenic alleles (7% of ‘non-clinical’ respondents but 23% ‘clinical’ ones). Only a minority prioritised that a transcript sequence never changes (<10%).