My sister's keeper?: genomic research and the identifiability of siblings

Background: Genomic sequencing of SNPs is increasingly prevalent, though the amount of familial information these data contain has not been quantified. Methods: We provide a framework for measuring the risk to siblings of a patient's SNP genotype disclosure, and demonstrate that sibling SNP...

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Main Authors: Cassa, Christopher A., Schmidt, Brian, Kohane, Isaac, Mandl, Kenneth D.
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49471