Anonymization of electronic medical records for validating genome-wide association studies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 7898-7903

  Loukides, Grigorios ^a   Gkoulalas Divanis, Aris ^a   Malin, Bradley ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANONYMOUS TESTING; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE;

EID: 77952390550     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911686107     Document Type: Article

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