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- Title
Microbiomes raise privacy concerns.
- Authors
Callaway, Ewen
- Abstract
The article focuses on research published in the May 11, 2015 issue of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists" suggesting the possibility to identify a participant in an anonymous study of the body's microbial organisms and talks about privacy concerns. It states that stool samples provided the best microbiome signatures which could link a person's samples 86 percent of the time. It comments on the contamination of human DNA short tandem repeats in microbiome samples.
- Subjects
GUT microbiome; HUMAN DNA; TANDEM repeats; ANONYMITY; RIGHT of privacy; MICROBIOLOGY; FECES; FECAL analysis
- Publication
Nature, 2015, Vol 521, Issue 7551, p136
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/521136a