No major flaws in "Identification of individuals by trait prediction using whole-genome sequencing data"
Christoph Lippert, Riccardo Sabatini, M. Cyrus Maher, Eun Yong Kang, Seunghak Lee, Okan Arıkan, Alena S. Harley, Axel Bernal, Peter Garst, Victor P. Lavrenko, Kenneth Yocum, Theodore M. Wong, Mingfu Zhu, Wen-Yun Yang, Christopher C. Chang, , J. Craig Venter
The paper addresses criticisms of a previous study on identifying individuals from whole-genome sequencing data by demonstrating the limitations of Erlich's simulation and highlighting the algorithm's use of multiple trait-based predictive models.
bioRxiv · Oct 19, 2017 · PreprintGenomics