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Understanding the links between privacy and public data sharing

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Linking clinical and phenotype variables across data sets will both power precision medicine studies and introduce new privacy risks

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Figure 1: Example of linkage attack in which de-identified gene expression data are provided with HIV status in phenotype database 2, and name and SNP data are provided in database 3.

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  1. David W. Craig is at the Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.,

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Craig, D. Understanding the links between privacy and public data sharing. Nat Methods 13, 211–212 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3779

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