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Comment on YSK that the United Kingdom created the Biobank, the largest health study in the world. 500,000 volunteers have their blood, genetic and health data shared.

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RamenDame@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Well, for a geneticists it is „easy“. In this paper which is a little older they just look at the Y-Chromosome and the last name, something men share with their fathers, and public accessible data (at the time). The pedigree is resolvable. Link

Therefore it is important, that this data is access restricted. For this we have EGA

So using for profit services like MyHeritage is risky and stored on servers you might not want your data on.

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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Names are not included in the data set.

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- RamenDame@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I am aware of this, but with little information it is possible to identify people. It was more about the: oh we share only half with our parents. Who can figure it out?
  
  There is a good reason to keep this data access restricted. With little sensitive data, you are an open book.
  
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  - Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s a good job this is restricted data, then. :)
    
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