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June 17, 2013Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy – NYTimes.com
June 17, 2013https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/346318841367908352
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/science/poking-holes-in-the-privacy-of-dna.html
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June 16, 2013
Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy
By GINA KOLATA
Not so long ago, people who provided DNA in the course of research studies were told that their privacy was assured. Their DNA sequences were on publicly available Web sites, yes, but they did not include names or other obvious identifiers. These were research databases, scientists said, not like the forensic DNA banks being gathered by the F.B.I. and police departments.
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Experts were startled by what Dr. Erlich had done. “We are in what I call an awareness moment,” said Eric D. Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Research subjects who share their DNA may risk a loss of not just their own privacy but also that of their children and grandchildren, who will inherit many of the same genes, said Mark B. Gerstein, a Yale professor who studies large genetic databases.
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ScienceDirect.com – Chemistry & Biology – As Personal Genomes Join Big Data Will Privacy and Access Shrink?
March 4, 2013http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074552113000094
Volume 20, Issue 1, 24 January 2013, Pages 1–2
As Personal Genomes Join Big Data Will Privacy and Access Shrink? Jeanne Erdmann
Chemistry & Biology
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We live immersed in a world of big data. Every Internet click is tracked and noted—where we browse, what we view, how long we browse, where we shop, what we buy, what we “like.” In fact, many of our daily activities are monitored. Surveillance cameras track vehicles as they pass through intersections and track pedestrians as they walk down sidewalks; cameras note our transactions at ATMs. While it’s understandable to worry that so much surveillance invades our privacy, we may be overlooking the most personal information of all: the order of base pairs in our genomes. Each day, DNA sequencers worldwide churn out personal genomic data, which are then folded into large databases, some of which are open access, others of which are privately held. All of these big data collections carry value, and they’re mined for that value, whether it’s to tell Amazon what kind of books we like or to tell researchers whether our DNA carries variations that link to an increased risk for disease.
“I do think that those are parallel discussions,” says Mark Gerstein, PhD, a professor of bioinformatics at Yale University in New Haven. “But if you talk to most genomicists they don’t usually connect genomics with large-scale data mining on the web or in life.” They’re the same, Gerstein says. People may be attuned to the concept of secrets and privacy of personal information but not when it comes to mining terabytes of personal genomic information. The distinction is critical, because our tastes in books and music may evolve over the years, but our genomes never change.
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Big biology: The ’omes puzzle : Nature News & Comment
March 1, 2013http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-the-omes-puzzle-1.12484?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228
Where once there was the genome, now there are thousands of ’omes.
Nature goes in search of the ones that matter.
by Monya Baker
27 February 2013Contains an interesting ‘omes crossword
Junk no more > Features > Winter 2013 | Yale Medicine
February 28, 2013http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/winter2013//features/feature/145468 Yale scientists played a leading role in an international effort to map the 99 percent of the human genome that doesn’t produce
proteins—perhaps ending the notion that those regions are “junk.” By Colleen Shaddox
Big biology: The ’omes puzzle : Nature News & Comment
February 28, 2013http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-the-omes-puzzle-1.12484?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130228 Where once there was the genome, now there are thousands of ’omes. Nature goes in search of the ones that matter.
by Monya Baker
27 February 2013
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