Identifying personal genomes by surname inference

Science

Volumn 339, Issue 6117, 2013, Pages 321-324

  Gymrek, Melissa ^a,b,c,d   McGuire, Amy L ^e   Golan, David ^f   Halperin, Eran ^f,g   Erlich, Yaniv ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^g INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DATA SET; DATABASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENEALOGY; GENOMICS; INTERNET; MALE; METADATA; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; MALE; NAMED GROUPS OF PERSONS; PEDIGREE; PERSONAL GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SURNAME; UNITED STATES; Y CHROMOSOME;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872459720     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1229566     Document Type: Article

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