Protecting privacy in genomic databases
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 08:11
in Biology & Nature
Genome-wide association studies, which try to find correlations between particular genetic variations and disease diagnoses, are a staple of modern medical research. But because they depend on databases that contain people’s medical histories, they carry privacy risks. An attacker armed with genetic information about someone — from, say, a skin sample — could query a […]