Human mitochondrial DNA in public metagenomes: Opportunity or privacy threat?

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Interesting commentary in Cell. In 9,251 publicly available human metagenomes, they found reads mapping to human mtDNA in ~20% of the datasets. In almost all it was possible to derive the haplogroup. This is an important privacy gap that should be clos…

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