Caught you: threats to confidentiality due to the public release of large-scale genetic data sets

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Large-scale genetic data sets are frequently shared with other research groups and even released on the Internet to allow for secondary analysis. Study participants are usually not informed about such data sharing because data sets a...

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Main Author: Wjst Matthias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/11/21