Towards practical privacy-preserving genome-wide association study

Towards practical privacy-preserving genome-wide association study

Abstract Background The deployment of Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) requires genomic information of a large population to produce reliable results. This raises significant privacy concerns, making people hesitate to contribute their genetic information to such studies. Results We propose t...

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Main Authors: Charlotte Bonte, Eleftheria Makri, Amin Ardeshirdavani, Jaak Simm, Yves Moreau, Frederik Vercauteren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Subjects:
Genome-wide association study (GWAS)
Homomorphic encryption (HE)
Secure multiparty computation (MPC)
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2541-3

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