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

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wjst, Matthias ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ETHICS; EUROPEAN UNION; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERNET; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ETHICS, RESEARCH; EUROPEAN UNION; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC TESTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERNET; JOURNALISM; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650591265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-11-21     Document Type: Article

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