deCODE Lauds Federal Legislation to Ban Discrimination on the Basis of Genetic Information

Apr 25, 2008 | NEWS

Reykjavik, ICELAND, April 25, 2008 – deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) today expressed its enthusiastic support for the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act (GINA), a bill that, many years in the making, is now moving swiftly through Congress and is expected to be...

deCODE Identifies Novel Regions of the Genome that Affect Normal Adult Height

Apr 6, 2008 | NEWS

April 6, 2008 – Scientists at deCODE genetics have identified 27 regions in the human genome that affect adult height. These variants, which are published today in the online edition of Nature Genetics, together explain an estimated 4% percent of the normal population...

A Smoking Gene: deCODE Shows How a Single Variant in the Sequence of the Genome Confers Nicotine Dependence and Risk of Lung Cancer and Other Disease

Apr 2, 2008 | NEWS

Reykjavik, ICELAND, April 02, 2008 – Cigarette smoking is a major public health problem that contributes to millions of deaths around the world each year. While the health risks of smoking are well known, relatively little is known about why some people are...

deCODE Obesity Study Sheds Light on how Genetics Affect Risk and Onset of Common Diseases

Mar 16, 2008 | NEWS

Reykjavik, ICELAND, March 16, 2008 – In a paper published online today in the journal Nature, a team of deCODE scientists detail a major mechanism through which genetic factors contribute to major public health problems. In its work on the inherited components of...

deCODE launches a DNA-based test for assessing risk of prostate cancer on the back of the discovery of new prostate cancer genes

Feb 10, 2008 | NEWS

New risk variants published today will also be folded into deCODEme™ Reykjavik, ICELAND, February 10, 2008 – deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) today announced the launch of deCODE PrCa™, a reference laboratory test for common, single-letter variations in the human...