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Gencrypt: one-way cryptographic hashes to detect overlapping individuals across samples.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Mar 2012
Turchin Michael C, Hirschhorn Joel N
Abstract excerpt
Meta-analysis across genome-wide association studies is a common approach for discovering genetic associations. However, in some meta-analysis efforts, individual-level data cannot be broadly shared by study investigators due to privacy and Institutional Review Board concerns. In such cases, researchers cannot confirm that each study represents a unique group of people, leading to potentially inflated test...
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