PrivGWAS – Preserving Privacy in Genomewide Association Studies

PrivGWAS

:: DESCRIPTION

PrivGWAS is a set of two methods for performing privacy preserving GWAS in the presence of population stratification: PrivSTRAT and PrivLMM. Both methods allow researched to generate GWAS results while protecting private phenotype information about participants.

::DEVELOPER

Bonnie BergerĀ 

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux / Windows / MacOsX
  • Python

:: DOWNLOAD

PrivGWAS

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Cell Syst, 3 (1), 54-61 Jul 2016
Enabling Privacy-Preserving GWASs in Heterogeneous Human Populations
Sean Simmons , Cenk Sahinalp , Bonnie Berger