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Gain for science is history buffs' loss
Email: Mark Baard - mark@baard.com News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030210-03 doi:10.1186/20030210-03
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When Iceland's DeCode Genetics published an online genealogy database last month, history buffs were disappointed to learn they could access only their own family trees. DeCode itself has used the database, with family names encrypted, to exploit family pedigrees for locating disease-associated genes. But privacy laws enacted by Iceland's Parliament in light of DeCode's research now apply to the genealogies themselves, restricting who can access information that was once public.
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