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Scientists Discover How to Identify People from ‘Anonymous’ Genomes (2013)
- tempestn 11y agoAbstract of original paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/321.abstract http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/321.abstract
- anon1253 11y agoInteresting. It has been known for a while too that it only takes about a 100 SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) to identify a person from a large biobank. I once wrote a paper how to potentially combat this https://files.joelkuiper.eu/f/preprint/biobank2015_final.pdf https://files.joelkuiper.eu/f/preprint/biobank2015_final.pdf (pdf)