Privacy-preserving data sharing for genome-wide association studies

Uhler C, Slavkovic A, Fienberg S. 2013. Privacy-preserving data sharing for genome-wide association studies. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality . 5(1), 137–166.

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Uhler, CarolineISTA ; Slavkovic, Aleksandra; Fienberg, Stephen
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Traditional statistical methods for confidentiality protection of statistical databases do not scale well to deal with GWAS databases especially in terms of guarantees regarding protection from linkage to external information. The more recent concept of differential privacy, introduced by the cryptographic community, is an approach which provides a rigorous definition of privacy with meaningful privacy guarantees in the presence of arbitrary external information, although the guarantees may come at a serious price in terms of data utility. Building on such notions, we propose new methods to release aggregate GWAS data without compromising an individual’s privacy. We present methods for releasing differentially private minor allele frequencies, chi-square statistics and p-values. We compare these approaches on simulated data and on a GWAS study of canine hair length involving 685 dogs. We also propose a privacy-preserving method for finding genome-wide associations based on a differentially-private approach to penalized logistic regression.
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2013-08-01
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Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
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5
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1
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137 - 166
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Uhler C, Slavkovic A, Fienberg S. Privacy-preserving data sharing for genome-wide association studies. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality . 2013;5(1):137-166. doi:10.29012/jpc.v5i1.629
Uhler, C., Slavkovic, A., & Fienberg, S. (2013). Privacy-preserving data sharing for genome-wide association studies. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality . Carnegie Mellon University. https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.v5i1.629
Uhler, Caroline, Aleksandra Slavkovic, and Stephen Fienberg. “Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing for Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality . Carnegie Mellon University, 2013. https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.v5i1.629.
C. Uhler, A. Slavkovic, and S. Fienberg, “Privacy-preserving data sharing for genome-wide association studies,” Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality , vol. 5, no. 1. Carnegie Mellon University, pp. 137–166, 2013.
Uhler C, Slavkovic A, Fienberg S. 2013. Privacy-preserving data sharing for genome-wide association studies. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality . 5(1), 137–166.
Uhler, Caroline, et al. “Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing for Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality , vol. 5, no. 1, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013, pp. 137–66, doi:10.29012/jpc.v5i1.629.
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