Researchers use large DNA databases to conduct genome-wide association studies Bloomberg/Getty
The privacy of people who add their DNA to research databases may be vulnerable to hackers, who could exploit the information published in genome studies to identify an individual鈥檚 genetic code.
Genetics researchers are inadvertently publishing information that can theoretically be pieced together to identify someone鈥檚 DNA held in a research or commercial database, say Daphne Ezer at the Alan Turing Institute in London and her colleagues. Her team simulated how attackers could identify a person鈥檚 genetic code, and used this method to find a single dog鈥檚…
