Anonymization of electronic medical records for validating genome-wide association studies

The "approach automatically extracts potentially linkable clinical features and modifies them in a way that they can no longer be used to link a genomic sequence to a small number of patients, while preserving the associations between genomic sequences and specific sets of clinical features corresponding to GWAS-related diseases."

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/04/05/0911686107.abstract

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