Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Analysis of sensitive information leakage in functional genomics signal profiles through genomic deletions

  • Arif Harmanci,
  • Mark Gerstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04875-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Functional genomics data from many studies are widely shared publicly for their value in biomedical and disease research. Here, the authors show sensitive information leakage is possible by analyzing functional genomics signal profiles, and develop an anonymization procedure for privacy protection.