In microarray data, wide-scale correlations are numerous and increase the number of genes correlated to a test condition (phenotype, mutation status, etc).
The human genome can reveal sensitive information and is potentially re-identifiable, which raises privacy and security concerns about sharing such data on wide scales.
"My personal experiences with health data on a wide scale?
While such studies promise to lead to big medical advances, the collection of genetic data on such a wide scale is also raising ethical and privacy issues.
While such studies promise to lead to big medical advances, the collection of genetic data on such a wide scale is also raising ethical and privacy issues, particularly that genetic information -- if not kept confidential -- could be used to deny people or their family members insurance or employment.
However, at the time, no wide scale disease data set with standardized phenotypic annotations was available; therefore, the study was restricted to a small number of manually curated disease descriptions.
What, in effect, is the difference between gathering this data and wide-scale, unrestricted wiretapping?
The data is displayed as tables and map at a genome wide scale.
Large, newly-available data sets [5] offer the possibility of studying genetic diversity on a wide scale.
The various types of practice, frequently in isolation, were also considered only by some GPs and academic GPs as a limitation for collecting data on a wider scale (GP13b).
In cases such as this one, research processes are impacting the provision of clinical care, through novel standardized routines for the collection and storage of biomaterial and data on a nation-wide scale.
