"NIST report identifies significant privacy gaps in genomic data handling" -- January 6, 20241/6/2024
Reference: Smalley, S. (2023, December 21). NIST report identifies significant privacy gaps in genomic data handling: A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report on the cybersecurity of genomic data found major privacy gaps in how the data is generated, stored and shared." https://therecord.media/nist-identifies-privacy-gaps-genomic-data See also: Pulivarti R, Martin N, Byers F, Wagner J, Maragh S, Wilson K, Wojtyniak M, Kreider B, Frances A, Edwards S, Morris T, Sheldon J, Ross S, Whitlow P (2023) Cybersecurity of Genomic Data. (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD), NIST Interagency or Internal Report (IR) NIST IR 8432. https://doi.org/10.6028//NIST.IR.8432
ancIBD: A new method for detecting identity by descent (IBD) segments in ancient human DNA12/20/2023
Max Planck Society. (2023, December 20). "Revealing close and distant relatives in ancient DNA with unprecedented precision." Phys Org. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-revealing-distant-ancient-dna-unprecedented.html
From the original research: "Long DNA segments shared between two individuals, known as identity-by-descent (IBD), reveal recent genealogical connections. Here we introduce ancIBD, a method for identifying IBD segments in ancient human DNA (aDNA) using a hidden Markov model and imputed genotype probabilities." Reference (Open Access): Ringbauer, H., Huang, Y., Akbari, A. et al. Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA. Nat Genet (2023). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01582-w "Following in polar bears' footprints: DNA from snow tracks could help monitor threatened animals."12/4/2023
By using environmental DNA collected from fresh skin shells shed by Polar Bears and left behind in their footprints in the snow, researchers may learn more about threatened Polar Bear populations in a non-invasive ("paws off") way. References:
"5,200 years of migrations from Mexico to California may be the origin of a mystery language."11/27/2023
Reference:
Jackson, J. (2023, 27 November). "5,200 years of migrations from Mexico to California may be the origin of a mystery language." Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-years-migrations-mexico-california-mystery.html Citation: "Nakatsuka, N., Holguin, B., Sedig, J. et al. Genetic continuity and change among the Indigenous peoples of California. Nature (2023). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06771-5 |
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