Deterministic identification of specific individuals from GWAS results

• Main Authors: Cai, Ruichu, Hao, Zhifeng, Winslett, Marianne, Xiao, Xiaokui, Yang, Yin, Zhang, Zhenjie, Zhou, Shuigeng
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Genotype; Algorithm
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85990; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43909
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Motivation: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are commonly applied on human genomic data to understand the causal gene combinations statistically connected to certain diseases. Patients involved in these GWASs could be re-identified when the studies release statistical information on a large n...