Dataset Information

HEALER: homomorphic computation of ExAct Logistic rEgRession for secure rare disease variants analysis in GWAS.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used in discovering the association between genotypes and phenotypes. Human genome data contain valuable but highly sensitive information. Unprotected disclosure of such information might put individual's privacy at risk. It is important to protect human genome data. Exact logistic regression is a bias-reduction method based on a penalized likelihood to discover rare variants that are associated with disease susceptibility. We propose the HEALER framework to facilitate secure rare variants analysis with a small sample size.

Results

We target at the algorithm design aiming at reducing the computational and storage costs to learn a homomorphic exact logistic regression model (i.e. evaluate P-values of coefficients), where the circuit depth is proportional to the logarithmic scale of data size. We evaluate the algorithm performance using rare Kawasaki Disease datasets.

Availability and implementation

Download HEALER at http://research.ucsd-dbmi.org/HEALER/ CONTACT: shw070@ucsd.edu

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Wang S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4739182 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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HEALER: homomorphic computation of ExAct Logistic rEgRession for secure rare disease variants analysis in GWAS.

Wang Shuang S Zhang Yuchen Y Dai Wenrui W Lauter Kristin K Kim Miran M Tang Yuzhe Y Xiong Hongkai H Jiang Xiaoqian X

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20151006 2

<h4>Motivation</h4>Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used in discovering the association between genotypes and phenotypes. Human genome data contain valuable but highly sensitive information. Unprotected disclosure of such information might put individual's privacy at risk. It is important to protect human genome data. Exact logistic regression is a bias-reduction method based on a penalized likelihood to discover rare variants that are associated with disease susceptibilit ...[more]

PMID: 26446135

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Dataset Information

HEALER: homomorphic computation of ExAct Logistic rEgRession for secure rare disease variants analysis in GWAS.

Motivation

Results

Availability and implementation

Supplementary information

Publications

HEALER: homomorphic computation of ExAct Logistic rEgRession for secure rare disease variants analysis in GWAS.

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