Ethical and practical challenges of sharing data from genome-wide association studies: The eMERGE Consortium experience

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Data sharing for eMERGE is composed of three central tenets: (1) sharing of research data, including genomic data, between sites; (2) sharing of research data among all sites and the Administrative Coordination Center (ACC) with the facilitation of data flow enabled by the ACC or any particular site; and (3) sharing of data with secondary investigators through external NIH databases, namely dbGaP.

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  1. Genome Res. 21: 1001-1007

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