May 31, 2022 | NEWS
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,...
Apr 28, 2022 | NEWS
Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, have together with their Nordic collaborators published the largest genome-wide association study to date on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, including over thirty thousand cases and...
Dec 2, 2021 | NEWS
In a study published today in Nature genetics, scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company Amgen, demonstrate how measuring the levels of a large number of proteins in plasma at a population scale when combined with data on sequence...
Jul 19, 2021 | NEWS
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...
Jun 22, 2021 | NEWS
Scientists at deCODE genetics have found a new biomarker for osteoarthritis, that outperforms previously reported biomarkers and is an independent predictor of disease. Kari Stefansson and Unnur Styrkarsdpttir. In a study published in the medical journal,...
Jun 18, 2021 | NEWS
Scientists from deCODE genetics have developed a predictor based on protein measurements in blood samples that predicts the time to all-cause death better than traditional risk factors. In a paper published today in Communications Biology, scientists from deCODE...
