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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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http://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

http://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

http://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