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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .Since the first human genome sequence was published, thousands of people have submitted their DNA for scientific analysis.
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3 .They made these donations anonymously--or so they thought.
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4 .Now, using publicly available information, researchers found they could figure out the identities of 50 individuals who had loaned their genes to science.
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5 .Their results, although not the names of the people, are in the journal Science.
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6 .Biomedical research depends on human subjects, and issues of privacy have always been a concern.
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7 .When scientists share genomic data, they first strip away identifying information, like the individual's name and date of birth.
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8 .But is that really enough?
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9 .Researchers looked at a specific set of markers in genomes whose sequences were in a public database.
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10 .And they found that by matching up these markers with sequences that people had submitted to genealogy web sites,
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11 .they could identify some of the genome donors' relatives, then with a bit more sleuthing, come up with their actual names.
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12 .Of course, many people now post online accounts of what's on their minds or even on their menus.
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13 .But even those who are relatively relaxed about their privacy might think twice about their genomes going public.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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