Achieving GWAS with homomorphic encryption

• Main Authors: Jun Jie Sim (Author), Fook Mun Chan (Author), Shibin Chen (Author), Benjamin Hong Meng Tan (Author), Khin Mi Mi Aung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background One way of investigating how genes affect human traits would be with a genome-wide association study (GWAS). Genetic markers, known as single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), are used in GWAS. This raises privacy and security concerns as these genetic markers can be used to identif...