Tuesday, February 26, 2013
2/27 Potluck
THIS article by David Craig shows that an individual can be identified in a large population's SNP data. This has important implications because, before this article, conglomerated SNP data was being made openly available online. Using a program and an individual's SNP profile, you can tell if that individual is present in a larger sample. This has important implications for privacy.
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