How hackers can unlock your genetic secrets
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 15:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Researchers have shown that it's possible to link your identity to supposedly secret genetic information about your predisposition to diseases, merely by analyzing family-tree databases and other publicly available information.
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