First report from the world’s most ambitious sequencing project

Reykjavík, Iceland, July 20, 2022 – Scientists at deCODE genetics a subsidiary of Amgen together with collaborators from Denmark report on the whole genome sequences of 150 thousand participants in the UK biobank in a paper published in the journal Nature today. This...

25th anniversary of deCODE genetics

DeCODE genetics celebrated its 25th anniversary with a two-day conference in Reykjavik on the 18 and 18th of May. The first day was dedicated to deCODES contributions to the Study of Human Diversity over 25 years. The second day was committed to Human Diversity,...

New study on inheritance and fetal growth

Scientists from deCODE genetics have mapped 243 sequence variants affecting fetal growth, separating maternal genome and fetal genome. It sheds light on the relationships between hypertension, diabetes and fetal growth. Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Kari Stefansson and...