Paper 2015/133
Private Computation on Encrypted Genomic Data
Kristin Lauter, Adriana Lopez-Alt, and Michael Naehrig
Abstract
A number of databases around the world currently host a wealth of genomic data that is invaluable to researchers conducting a variety of genomic studies. However, patients who volunteer their genomic data run the risk of privacy invasion. In this work, we give a cryptographic solution to this problem: to maintain patient privacy, we propose encrypting all genomic data in the database. To allow meaningful computation on the encrypted data, we propose using a homomorphic encryption scheme. Specifically, we take basic genomic algorithms which are commonly used in genetic association studies and show how they can be made to work on encrypted genotype and phenotype data. In particular, we consider the Pearson Goodness-of-Fit test, the D' and r^2-measures of linkage disequilibrium, the Estimation Maximization (EM) algorithm for haplotyping, and the Cochran-Armitage Test for Trend. We also provide performance numbers for running these algorithms on encrypted data.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Minor revision. to appear in LATINCRYPT 2014
- Keywords
- homomorphic encryptionprivacygenomic computation
- Contact author(s)
- klauter @ microsoft com
- History
- 2015-02-26: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2015/133
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/133,
author = {Kristin Lauter and Adriana Lopez-Alt and Michael Naehrig},
title = {Private Computation on Encrypted Genomic Data},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/133},
year = {2015},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/133}
}
