General Information
| Description | One-way cryptographic hashes to detect overlapping individuals across samples |
| Homepage | http://www.broadinstitute.org/software/gencrypt/ |
Publications
Gencrypt: one-way cryptographic hashes to detect overlapping individuals across samples
Summary:
Meta-analysis across genome-wide association studies is a common approach for discovering genetic associations. However, in some meta-analysis efforts, individual-level data cannot be broadly shared by study investigators due to privacy and Institutional Review Board concerns. In such cases, researchers cannot confirm that each study represents a unique group of people, leading to potentially inflated test statistics and false positives. To resolve this problem, we created a software tool, Gencrypt, which utilizes a security protocol known as one-way cryptographic hashes to allow overlapping participants to be identified without sharing individual-level data.
Availability:
Gencrypt is freely available under the GNU general public license v3 at http://www.broadinstitute.org/software/gencrypt/
Contact:
joelh@broadinstitute.org
Supplementary information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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