Genome detectives change the donation game

• Autores: Sara Reardon
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2901, 2013, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Reardon shares that in a paper published in Science last week, a team led by Yaniv Erlich of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge MA used publicly available genetic databases to put likely surnames to the anonymous DNA data in HapMap's successor, the 1000 Genomes project. Then, using online phonebooks and the donor age and location information provided by the project, Erlich's team managed to identify about 50 of the donors. To prevent Erlich's method from being used successfully again, age data has been removed from the project's Web site. While someone is bound to find another way to identify genetic donors, the National Institutes of Health believe it would be wrong to remove their genome data from the public domain.