He is running an experiment, called the Personal Genome Project, in which other people are encouraged to do so, too.
The Personal Genome Project confirmed that 97% of the names matched those in its database if nicknames and first name variations were included.
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Church is running a personal genome project that has gathered 10 volunteers who have agreed to have their genetic information made public on the Web.
These are not, of course, complete sequences of the customer's genome you have to go to Knome or places like Dr Church's Personal Genome Project at Harvard for that.
His Personal Genome Project makes no privacy promises at all.
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He has moved to embrace new gene-deciphering technology as one of the PGP-10 the first ten participants in the Personal Genome Project being run by Harvard Professor George Church.
Software firm Autodesk is sponsoring some of the aspects of the research and Autodesk Research codesigned the demo app in collaboration with the Knight Lab and the Personal Genome Project.
"It's great that somebody is showing people we can do this, " says Harvard scientist George Church, whose own Personal Genome Project will start putting the genetic information of 10 volunteers on the Internet as early as this fall.
Church, who started the Personal Genome Project and is founder of the gene-scanning company Knome, envisions a Wikipedia-style model for interpreting the genome, where experts (using their real namea) collaborate online to help people interpret their genome results.
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Professor Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard, along with her research assistant and two students scraped data on 1, 130 people of the now more than 2, 500 who have shared their DNA data for the Personal Genome Project.
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From the onset, the Personal Genome Project, set up by Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics George Church, has warned participants of the risk that someone someday could identify them, meaning anyone could look up the intimate medical histories that many have posted along with their genome data.
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