Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure secret-sharing-based crowdsourcing for large-scale association studies of genomic and phenotypic data
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Application No.: US16020058Application Date: 2018-06-27
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Publication No.: US10910087B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Hyunghoon Cho , Bonnie Berger Leighton , David J. Wu
- Applicant: Hyunghoon Cho , Bonnie Berger Leighton , David J. Wu
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge; US MA Newton; US CA Stanford
- Assignee: Hyunghoon Cho,Bonnie Berger Leighton,David J. Wu
- Current Assignee: Hyunghoon Cho,Bonnie Berger Leighton,David J. Wu
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge; US MA Newton; US CA Stanford
- Agent David H. Judson
- Main IPC: G16B20/00
- IPC: G16B20/00 ; G16B30/00 ; G16B50/30 ; G16B5/00 ; G16B25/00

Abstract:
Computationally-efficient techniques facilitate secure crowdsourcing of genomic and phenotypic data, e.g., for large-scale association studies. In one embodiment, a method begins by receiving, via a secret sharing protocol, genomic and phenotypic data of individual study participants. Another data set, comprising results of pre-computation over random number data, e.g., mutually independent and uniformly-distributed random numbers and results of calculations over those random numbers, is also received via secret sharing. A secure computation then is executed against the secretly-shared genomic and phenotypic data, using the secretly-shared results of the pre-computation over random number data, to generate a set of genome-wide association study (GWAS) statistics. For increased computational efficiency, at least a part of the computation is executed over dimensionality-reduced genomic data. The resulting GWAS statistics are then used to identify genetic variants that are statistically-correlated with a phenotype of interest.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180373834A1 Secure genome crowdsourcing for large-scale association studies Public/Granted day:2018-12-27
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