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A technical account of the privacy properties of consumer and clinical DNA testing: what data exists, who holds it, what re-identification attacks work, and a concrete setup for keeping your own sequence data under your control.
HIPAA compliance is a property of the entity holding your data, not of a sequencing assay. Here is what HIPAA does and does not cover for genetic data, what to read in a lab's contract instead, and how to take custody of your own FASTQ, BAM, and VCF files.
A working guide to the free DNA upload sites worth using, what each one does with your file, and how to run the same annotation, polygenic scoring, and relative-matching analyses yourself on your own machine.