Assessing and managing risk when sharing aggregate genetic variant data

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 730-736

  Craig, David W ^a   Goor, Robert M ^b   Wang, Zhenyuan ^b   Paschall, Justin ^b   Ostell, Jim ^b   Feolo, Michael ^b   Sherry, Stephen T ^b   Manolio, Teri A ^c  

^a TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALLELE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052999290     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3067     Document Type: Review

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