PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gamze Gürsoy
AU  - Nancy Lu
AU  - Sarah Wagner
AU  - Mark Gerstein
TI  - Recovering genomes and phenotypes using allele-specific gene expression
AID  - 10.1101/2020.11.11.377978
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.11.11.377978
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/11/12/2020.11.11.377978.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/11/12/2020.11.11.377978.full
AB  - With the recent increase in RNA sequencing efforts using large cohorts of individuals, studying allele-specific gene expression is becoming increasingly important. Here, we report that, despite not containing explicit variant information, a list of allele-specific gene names of an individual is enough to recover key variants and link the individual back to their genome or phenotype. This creates a privacy conundrum.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.