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A cryptographic approach to securely share and query genomic sequences.
IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - 1 Sept 2008
Kantarcioglu Murat, Jiang Wei, Liu Ying, Malin Bradley
Abstract excerpt
To support large-scale biomedical research projects, organizations need to share person-specific genomic sequences without violating the privacy of their data subjects. In the past, organizations protected subjects' identities by removing identifiers, such as name and social security number; however, recent investigations illustrate that deidentified genomic data can be "reidentified" to named individuals using...
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