Human microbiome privacy risks associated with summary statistics.
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SUBMITTER: Cho JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8018636 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Human microbiome privacy risks associated with summary statistics.
PloS one 20210402 4
Recognizing that microbial community composition within the human microbiome is associated with the physiological state of the host has sparked a large number of human microbiome association studies (HMAS). With the increasing size of publicly available HMAS data, the privacy risk is also increasing because HMAS metadata could contain sensitive private information. I demonstrate that a simple test statistic based on the taxonomic profiles of an individual's microbiome along with summary statisti ...[more]
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