The challenges of maintaining genetic privacy

Elife. 2020 Jan 7:9:e54467. doi: 10.7554/eLife.54467.

Abstract

Two studies suggest that a determined adversary may be able to obtain genetic information without permission from some genealogy databases.

Keywords: evolutionary biology; genetic genealogy; genetic privacy; genetics; genomics; human; identity by descent; identity by state.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Databases, Factual
  • Genetic Privacy*
  • Pedigree