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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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