One way of investigating how genes affect human traits would be with a genome-wide association study (GWAS). Genetic markers, known as single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), are used in GWAS. This raises privacy and security concerns as these genetic markers can be used to identify individuals uniquely. This problem is further exacerbated by a large number of SNPs needed, which produce reliable results at a higher risk of compromising the privacy of participants.
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Publication costs were funded by Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR Research Entities. This research is supported by Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR Research Entities under its RIE2020 Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) Programmatic Program (Award A19E3b0099).
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This paper is open access: https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12920-020-0717-y