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502:— has been key to this productivity. It makes it possible to use both broad and rigorous definitions of phenotypes, rapidly test ideas, and for deCODE scientists to follow where the data leads rather than their own hypotheses. This has led to a range of discoveries that link diseases and at times use the genetics even to redefine phenotypes in unusual ways, and Stefansson has spent significant time explaining these discoveries and their utility to the scientific and lay media. Typically, discoveries made in Iceland are published alongside validation in outside populations. Conversely, deCODE has often used its resources to validate discoveries made elsewhere. Among the more noteworthy of these discoveries are, by disease and trait:
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questionnaires; undergoing detailed clinical examination and measurements; and giving blood for the isolation of DNA; all of this takes place at a special clinic and requires the commitment by participants of several hours to complete. The IHD was never built, its scientific and business rationale largely superseded by the response of
Icelanders to contribute their data one by one. By 2003, with some 95% of people asked to participate agreeing to do so, more than 100,000 were taking part in the study of one or more of three-dozen diseases. By 2007, this had grown to 130,000; and by 2018 to more than 160,000. This is roughly 70% of all adult citizens, 60,000 of whom have had their whole genomes sequenced.
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they demonstrated that genetic risk factors for schizophrenia and autism confer cognitive abnormalities even in control subjects; they linked schizophrenia, bipolar disorder with both creativity and risk of addiction; they identified genetic variants associated with educational attainment and childhood cognition; and demonstrated that these variants are currently under negative evolutionary selection. In addressing common psychiatric disorders and cognitive processes and traits across a population, this body of work has contributed to the present understanding of these conditions not as discrete phenotypes but as related through the disruption of fundamental cognitive functions.
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productivity challenges in drug development and
Stefansson has funded the company principally by partnering with pharmaceutical companies. A $ 200 million gene and target discovery deal with Roche in 1998 was an early sign of the industry's interest in genomics to make better drugs. Other partnerships were formed with Merck, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca and others. In the mid-2000s the company brought several of its own compounds into clinical development but did not have the financial resources to continue their development after its insolvency and restructuring in 2009.
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where it occurs in the body. deCODE published holistic evidence of this in a familial aggregation of all cancers diagnosed in anyone in
Iceland over fifty years, as well as other aggregation studies. These have demonstrated through basic genetics that while certain site cancers clustered in families, others cluster in a non-site specific way, pointing to common molecular causes. They discovered the chromosome 8q24 locus as harboring risk variants for many types of cancer, and variants in the TERT, TP53 and LG24 genes as risk factors for multiple cancers.
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relationship between citizens and private enterprise, which seemed logical to
Stefansson, counterintuitive to others and is disliked by some, is becoming ever more common. One factor underlying its success and driving participation in Iceland is clearly national pride, turning the country's small size and historical isolation into a unique advantage in an important field. Another is that discoveries are applied to trying to create and sell actual products to improve medicine and health. In a 2017 interview Iceland's former president
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in a way that was not possible with only SNP-chip and GWAS data. Importantly, they could identify rare, high-impact mutations affecting common phenotypes — in brief, the most extreme versions of common diseases — yielding drug targets with potentially better validated and more tractable therapeutic potential. This "rare-for-common" approach is now being followed by many drug companies. The identification of ASGR1 was an example of this and was taken into drug discovery to develop novel cholesterol-fighting drugs.
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a genetic map of the genome that was used to complete the final assembly of the reference human genome sequence. By mid-decade, even former critics acknowledged that what
Stefansson was building in Iceland through fully consented individual participation and datamining was indeed an important example to prospective genome projects in the UK, US, Canada, Sweden, Estonia and elsewhere, and to the foundation of new institutions like the Broad Institute.
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Icelandic national identity number, and is used by thousands of citizens every day. The version used in research replaces names with encrypted personal identifiers overseen by
Iceland's Data Protection Commission. This makes it possible to create pedigrees connecting the genetic and phenotypic data of any group of people in an anonymized manner. Stefansson and Gulcher published the structure of this data protection system for other genome projects to use.
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within a month of the acquisition, delivering information that has helped to avoid clinical failures and prioritize and guide trials. Harper claims that this "target-first drug development" model enabled the company to address its own version of the industry's endemic productivity problem. He estimated that "just having strong genetic support for half your pipeline you can improve your rate of return on R&D investments by approximately 50%."
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its national health system. In 1995, he and his colleague and former graduate student, Jeffrey
Gulcher, decided to go to Iceland to study multiple sclerosis. Working with doctors in the national health system they identified hundreds of patients and relatives who gave them blood samples to begin their research. As Icelanders they were almost by definition related, and due to the national pastime of genealogy those relationships could be established.
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cancer, and clonal hematopoiesis. Three studies over nearly a decade demonstrated the power of the population datasets in
Iceland by showing that both common and rare variants linked to increased nicotine addiction and the number of cigarettes smoked per day were also a risk factor for lung cancer and peripheral artery disease; that is, that a genetic predisposition to smoking was at the same time a risk factor for smoking-related disease.
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Icelandic population; observations of the phenomenon of genetic drift, as an isolated population diverges from it source populations over time; the relationship between kinship and fertility; the impact of population structure on disease associated variants and vice versa, and a population-wide catalogue of human knockouts, people missing certain genes.
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population. Using bioinformatics and statistics, deCODE could then combine and mine all this data together for correlations between variation in the sequence and any disease or trait, in a nearly hypothesis-free manner. The business model was to fund this effort through partnerships with pharmaceutical companies who would use the discoveries to develop new drugs.
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developing the disease. Stefansson looked for an association in deCODE data which confirmed that Icelanders did not have the exact variant found by Altshuler's team but did have another in the same gene that was clearly protective for T2D. The deCODE team then added their variant to the paper that was published in Nature Genetics.
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maintaining local control over its data and science. With Amgen's full support it has continued to publish both commercially relevant gene and drug target discoveries and on human diversity and evolution, providing a high-profile example of how commercial goals, basic science and public dissemination of results can be mutually beneficial.
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hundreds of local and international institutions and organizations with whom deCODE has collaborations. A large number of these are noteworthy contributions to the field and Stefansson and several of his deCODE colleagues are consistently ranked among the most highly cited scientists in genetics and molecular biology.
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data by a private enterprise and to presumed consent as the model for the use of medical records in research. They argued that the project put individuals' data privacy at risk, would stifle scientific freedom, and they generally disapproved of the new venture-funded model of biomedical innovation that deCODE represented.
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fertility rates than non-carriers. A second recombination map published in 2010 utilized 300,000 SNPs and revealed different recombination hotspots between women and men, as well as novel genetic variations that affect recombination rate, and that do so differently in European and African populations.
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scientists in cutting-edge fields; and following international norms of consent while setting new standards in large-scale research, with oversight by public bioethics and data protection bodies and novel data and privacy protection protocols. Critics at the time remained unconvinced. Stanford bioethicist
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volume 26, page 395, December 2000. One example of the relative genetic homogeneity but global utility of studying the Icelandic population is breast cancer. Around the world there are many variants in the BRCA2 gene known to confer substantial increased risk of breast cancer, but in Iceland there is
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In 2014, Stefansson met David Altshuler, then deputy director of the Broad Institute, who stopped at deCODE on his way back from Finland and Sweden. Altshuler had been leading a T2D research effort and had found a rare variant that seemed to protect even those with common lifestyle risk factors from
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to whole-genome sequencing – this participation is unique as a proportion of the population and has also consistently comprised one of the largest collections of genomic data in the world in absolute terms. Using the genealogies deCODE can impute the sequence data of the entire population, yielding a
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Stefansson was attacked for the IHD and his broader approach. He argued that far from supplanting traditional data sources or researchers, deCODE was creating a new scale of resources and opportunities including for the health service; benefitting the community by repatriating and employing Icelandic
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When he was recruited from Chicago to Harvard, Stefansson began to think that the genome might provide a better starting point than biology. Genes encode proteins, so identifying the genes and specific genetic variations that patients tended to share more often than healthy individuals should provide
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he has pioneered the use of population-scale genetics to understand variation in the sequence of the human genome. His work has focused on how genomic diversity is generated and on the discovery of sequence variants impacting susceptibility to common diseases. This population approach has served as a
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In 2006, one Reykjavík resident and a participant in deCODE research said that about 90% of people thought taking part in research funded by pharmaceutical companies made sense, while about 10% were against it, roughly capturing the participation rate of those asked. Michael D Lemomick, "The Iceland
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This was not an obvious thing to look for. Even prominent experts who predicted the future power of population genetics and association studies seem not to have considered that linkage analysis could be extended to common diseases, and aid in association studies, through population-wide genealogies.
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More broadly, Amgen's longtime chief scientific officer Sean Harper said in 2018 that "with the acquisition of deCODE we gained an industrial capability to do population genetics" that could provide human genetic validation for any target or compound. deCODE assessed Amgen's entire clinical pipeline
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The integration with Amgen coincided with the beginning of large-scale whole-genome sequencing at deCODE and the imputation of that data throughout the company's Iceland dataset. With that data, Stefansson and his colleagues at Amgen believed that genomics could be transformative to drug development
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deCODE discovered the link between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and variants in the TCF7L2 gene, the most important common known genetic risk factor known, and variants in the CDKAL1 and other genes linked to insulin response and both increased and decreasednT2D risk. The deCODE team has made contributions
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The primary means of recruitment for deCODE research has been through collaboration with physicians across the health service who construct lists of patients with different diseases who are then invited to take part. Participation entails not only written informed consent but also filling out health
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published their draft sequences of the human genome in 2001, his vision for population genetics had already taken shape and was yielding early discoveries of sequence variation linked to disease, human evolution and population history. In 2002, deCODE used its capabilities in Iceland to publish
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in breast cancer, was among the scientists who recognized the potential of these records. As she told the New Yorker, "to be able to trace the genealogy of an entire nation for a thousand years...and obtain samples of blood and tissue from healthy living people...could become one of the treasures of
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In April 2019, Stefansson was named first president of the Nordic Society of Human Genetics and Precision Medicine, formed to create a pan-Nordic framework for human genetics research and the application of genomics to healthcare across the region, with the aim of generating and integrating genomic
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became a common term, he wanted to provide its foundation : to find and validate drug targets rooted in disease pathways rather than rely on trial and error in medicinal chemistry, and to be able to test and prescribe drugs for patients likely to respond well. This addresses longstanding
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created a computerized national genealogy database that linked all living Icelanders and included the majority of people who have ever lived in Iceland over the past eleven hundred years. In 2003, one version of this database, called Íslendingabók, was made freely available online to anyone with an
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variant had been found in Iceland, but he wanted to look at the most common public health problems. The Wall Street Journal called the venture a "big gamble," citing noted scientists that "to date, there's no scientific proof that researchers can decipher the genetics of a complex disease among the
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Iceland had the data sources required for this "population approach": a high-quality single-payer healthcare system; a relatively homogeneous population that would make finding disease variants less complex; an educated citizenry that was willing to contribute DNA and medical and health information
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gene linked to significantly increased risk of breast and prostate cancer in Icelanders. This was the first time that deCODE, which is primarily a research organization, returned information from its research data to participants. Stefansson had tried for many years to convince the Icelandic
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Stefansson and his colleagues have made numerous pioneering discoveries of genome variants conferring risk of many common cancers. They have played a role in shaping the now commonly accepted new paradigm for understanding cancer: that it should be defined at least as much in molecular terms as in
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gene in schizophrenia, leading to substantial research in this novel pathway. Over the next fifteen years they used standard GWAS and reduced fecundity as an intermediate phenotype to home in on SNPs and copy number variations (CNVs) linked to risk of schizophrenia and other disorders;
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Leading his deCODE colleagues to continually build and re-query these population datasets, Stefansson has made a steady stream of contributions to the understanding of how variation in the sequence of the genome is generated and its impact on health and disease. Myles Axton, the longtime editor of
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authorizing the creation of such a database and its licensing for commercial use was passed in 1998. But it was fiercely opposed by a group of local academics and doctors as well as many international bioethicists. Opponents of the Iceland Health Sector Database (IHD) objected to the use of public
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An important question was whether and where such extended genealogies might be found. It was not one that occurred to many leading geneticists to ask with regard to common diseases. As an Icelander, Stefansson knew the country's passion for genealogy first hand and had grown up with and trained in
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deCODE has discovered a number of sequence variants linked to risk of prostate cancer (as well as a protective variant), breast cancer, melanoma and basal cell carcinoma, thyroid cancer, urinary bladder cancer, ovarian cancer, renal cell cancer, gastric cancer, testicular cancer, lung
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Stefansson and his team have used the breadth of the company's datasets and links between diseases and traits to discover new risk variants for mental illness, but also to refine the understanding of the perturbations that define these conditions and the nature of cognition itself. Studies in the
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mutations. In a much discussed paper from 2012 they demonstrated that the number of such mutations — variants that appear in the genomes of children but are not inherited from either parent — increases with paternal age and constitute a major source of rare diseases of childhood. A detailed
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From its inception, Stefansson's strategy was controversial. The genomics community was still far from generating a first human genome sequence; he was proposing a data system for mining hundreds of thousands of genomes. Genes linked to rarer syndromes had been identified in isolated families in
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Stefansson conceived deCODE as an industrial-scale enterprise for human genetics. Unlike the prevailing academic model of scientists undertaking discrete projects in their separate labs, he proposed to gather and generate as much genealogical, medical and genomic data as he could from across the
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Stefansson's academic work was focused on neurodegenerative disease. The protein biology approach to this research involved trying to map complex processes using limited samples, mainly of brain tissue from deceased patients. Although publishing steadily, Stefansson was frustrated by the pace of
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Axton also pointed out that notwithstanding deCODE scientists' hundreds of publications elsewhere, 111 papers, or five percent of the papers published during his tenure at the journal over the preceding twelve years, had come out of deCODE. Axton's comments are from his remarks at deCODE's 20th
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Stefansson also oversaw deCODE bringing to market clinical tests for polygenic risk of type 2 diabetes, heart attack, prostate cancer, and atrial fibrillation and stroke. Marketing of these products and deCODEme ceased with the company's financial troubles in 2011, but recent high-profile
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They then showed that older women recombine more than younger women; that higher recombination correlates with higher fertility; and that a large inversion on chromosome 17 is at present under positive evolutionary selection in European populations, with carriers having higher recombination and
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In 2002, deCODE published its first recombination map of the human genome. It was constructed with 5000 microsatellite markers and highlighted 104 corrections to the Human Genome Project's draft assembly of the genome, immediately increasing the accuracy of the draft from 93 to 99%. But from an
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deCODEme and other tests apart from 23andMe are no longer offered, but contemporaneous examples of deCODE discoveries being foundational to personal genome scans examining validated risk for type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease can be seen in G Palomaki et al., "Use of genomic panels to
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was to develop better methods. In the meantime, one solution was to use genetics – how the genome is mixed and passed from one generation to the next – as a means of deriving more information from the available data. Siblings share half their genomes; but cousins one eighth, second cousins one
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With no response from the health system, Stefansson went ahead and put the matter in the hands of citizens. As of late 2018, some 40,000 people, more than ten percent of the population, had utilized the site to learn their BRCA2 status. Hundreds of people have been able to learn that they are
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In more than a dozen major papers published over nearly twenty years, Stefansson and his colleagues used their holistic view of an entire population to build a novel picture of the human genome as a system for transmitting information. They have provided a detailed view of how the genome uses
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While deCODE comprises the first and most comprehensive national genome project in the world, it has never been government funded. It has always been a business that relies on the voluntary participation of citizens and national health system doctors as partners in scientific discovery. This
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Stefansson and his cardiovascular research team have worked with collaborators around the world to discover common and rare variants associated with risk of atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease (CAD), stroke, peripheral artery disease, sick sinus syndrome, and aortic and intracranial
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By far the longest, deepest and most productive partnership has been that with Amgen. In 2012, Amgen bought deCODE for $ 415 million. Since then it has operated as a wholly owned but quite independent subsidiary, applying its capabilities across Amgen's drug development pipeline while
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to the understanding of genetic variation influencing a range of other diseases and traits including glaucoma; menarche; essential tremor; tuberculosis susceptibility; height; gene expression; hair, eye and skin pigmentation; aortic valve stenosis; rhinosinusitis; and dozens of others.
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What stirred the most controversy was Stefansson's proposal in 1997 to create a database of copies of medical records data from the national health service to correlate with genealogical and genomic data. Supported by a large majority of the public and members of parliament, the
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One pillar of the success of Stefansson's strategy has been his ability to convince tens of thousands of people to volunteer to take part in deCODE's research, and to connect and analyze their data using the genealogies. An early partnership with local software developer
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progress and often by not knowing whether the proteins he was characterizing were involved in causing disease or the product of the disease process. He and his colleagues came to question even the accepted definition of multiple sclerosis (MS) as an autoimmune disease.
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risk. Stefansson resigned both positions in 1997 after founding deCODE and moving back to Reykjavík. Since 2010, he has held a professorship in medicine at the University of Iceland. He is a board-certified neurologist and neuropathologist in both Iceland and the US.
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studies from Massachusetts General Hospital have revived interest in the medical value polygenic risk testing. These tests are using more markers and new algorithms to build upon the risk variants and approach pioneered in Iceland for these same diseases.
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essentially one disease-linked variant, which was published on the eve of deCODE's operational launch in Iceland: Steinnun Thorlacius et al., "A single BRCA2 mutation in male and female breast cancer families from Iceland with varied cancer phenotypes,"
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As the architect, scientific leader and very public face of deCODE, one of Stefansson's fundamental contributions has been to demonstrate that genomics can be done at national scale, and to provide a realized example of how to do it. By the time
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Ministry of Health that this was a serious public health issue that deCODE's data could address at virtually no cost, and it was but one of the clearest-cut of many such possible precision medicine applications to healthcare in Iceland.
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evolutionary biology perspective it demonstrated in new detail the non-random location of recombinations - the reshuffling of the genome that goes into the making of eggs and sperm - and that women recombine 1.6 times more than men.
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population of Iceland – or any country." And deCODE was a private company that was taking an entire nation as a unit of study, with the unprecedented level of public engagement and participation that would entail.
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launched websites to enable people everywhere to try to use genetics to build out their genealogies. In November 2007, deCODE launched deCODEme, the first personal genomics service, followed the next day by
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Stefansson has worked to turn his company's discoveries into medically useful and commercially successful products. Some were highly innovative and paved the way for new industries and markets. In the years after
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gene that confers substantial protection from coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death in the developed world. This finding is being used in drug discovery and development at
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that about 75% of women with a BRCA2 risk mutation will develop breast cancer before the age of 80. On the poorer prognosis of carriers of BRCA2 variants with prostate cancer, see MR Akhbari
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12 February 2006. Those who do not agree remain vocal even as emulation of the deCODE model proliferates: See for example Emma Jane Kirby, "Iceland's DNA: the world's most precious genes?,"
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See for example Francesco Cuca et al., "The distribution of DR4 haplotypes in Sardinia suggests a primary association of type I diabetes with DRB1 and DQB1 loci,"
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On the thinking behind the Roche deal, with only a modest dose of the fevered hyperbole and innuendo of the time, see Eliot Marshall, "Iceland's blond ambition,"
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This discovery attracted significant scientific and media attention. See, for example, Matt Herper, "Amgen researchers find gene that reduces heart attack risk,"
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Following on Iceland's success, countries now pursuing or planning national genome projects of varying scale, scope and rationale include the UK (via the
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3712:, Volume 38, pp 320–323, 15 January 2006; A Helgason et al., "Refining the impact of TCF7L2 gene variants on type 2 diabetes and adaptive evolution,"
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a foothold in the pathogenesis of disease. In doing so they might point to biologically relevant targets for new drugs and predictive diagnostics.
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A good early outline of Stefansson's vision and the business model in Stephen D. Moore, "Biotech firm turns Iceland into a giant genetics lab,"
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Volume 35, pp 1526–1531, 1 June 2015; A Helgadottir et al., "A Common Variant on Chromosome 9p21 Affects the Risk of Myocardial Infarction,"
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put it, "the number of countries now investing millions in similar resources is an astonishing testament to the perspicacity of his vision."
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Stefansson presented an early explanation of the 'broad but rigorous' approach to the definition of phenotypes powered by datamining at the
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A list of deCODE's key publications, on virtually all of which Stefansson is senior author, are listed by year on the company's website at
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J Gulcher, K Kristjansson, H Gudbjartsson, K Stefansson, "Protection of privacy by third-party encryption in genetic research in Iceland,"
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His particular focus was myelin degeneration in multiple sclerosis. A selection of his publications from this period can be searched on
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The breadth of impact of the model and Finnbogadottir quote in Catherine Offord, "Learning from Iceland's Model for Genetic Research,"
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A partial snapshot of the number, flavor and sources of articles can be seen from an archived view from May 1999 of the website of
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model for national genome projects around the world and contributed to the realization of several aspects of precision medicine.
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thirty-second, etc. Studying patients linked by extended genealogies should therefore make it possible to more efficiently find
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captured a common view: "If Icelanders can contribute to the health of the world, I'm more than proud. I'm grateful."
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G Sveinbjornsson et al., "HLA class II sequence variants influence tuberculosis risk in populations of European ancestry,"
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For contemporary views of this potential, MS Guyer and FS Collins, "The Human Genome Project and the future of medicine,"
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Yet Stefansson's principal goal has always been to use the genome to inform the development of better drugs. Years before
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P Sulem et al., "Genome-wide association study identifies sequence variants on 6q21 associated with age at menarche,"
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TE Thorgeirsson et al., "A variant associated with nicotine dependence, lung cancer and peripheral arterial disease,"
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A literary critique of these references in Lucy Burke, "Genetics at the Scene of the Crime: DeCODING Tainted Blood,"
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volume 40, pages 1068–1075, 17 August 2008. The first published sequence imputation dates from 2015: DF Gudbjartsson
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that enables Icelanders to request the analysis of their sequence data to determine whether they carry a SNP in the
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On lack of response from the government see Andy Coghlan, "Warn people of genetic health risks, says deCODE boss,"
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Kári in Time's 2007 "list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world"
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40, no. 2, pp153-91, Winter 2000; and Jon Merz, "Iceland, Inc?: On the ethics of commercial population genomics",
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from a sample of Davíð's hair. He is the model for Hrólfur Zóphanías Magnússon, director of the company CoDex, in
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A discussion of progress in this strategy is in Meg Tirrell, "Iceland's genetic goldmine and the man behind it,"
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F Zink et al., "Clonal hematopoiesis, with and without candidate driver mutations, is common in the elderly,"
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inhibitors as potential treatments. Stefansson and the deCODE team have also discovered variants in the
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ASHG Honors Kári Stefánsson with William Allan Award: Geneticist to Receive Award at ASHG 2017 Annual Meeting
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anniversary conference, held in Reykjavík on 30 September 2016, available in video on the company website at
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The resources and their utility for gene discovery is concisely summarized in deCODE's first press release:
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determine risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the general population: a targeted evidence-based review,"
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A Helgason et al., " An Icelandic example of the impact of population structure on association studies,"
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Nicholas Wade, "SCIENTIST AT WORK/Kari Stefansson; Hunting for Disease Genes In Iceland's Genealogies,"
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This map also showed that while women are responsible for most recombination, men generate the bulk of
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3404:, "A frameshift deletion in the sarcomere gene MYL4 causes early-onset familial atrial fibrillation,"
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A Kamb, S Harper and K Stefansson, "Human genetics as a foundation for innovative drug development,"
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deCODE discovers genetic markers that improve the power of PSA testing for detecting Prostate Cancer
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H Stefansson et al., "Variant in the sequence of the LINGO1 gene confers risk of essential tremor,"
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concluded simply that "the Icelandic model is not a good precedent for similar research elsewhere."
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A Kong et al., "Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment,"
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An example of deCODE's polygenic risk tests and the others it offered in company press release, "
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in Barcelona in 2000; it is also discussed in many publications. See for example S Gretarsdottir
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3797:, "Common Sequence Variants in the LOXL1 Gene Confer Susceptibility to Exfoliation Glaucoma,"
3366:, "A rare missense mutation in CHRNA4 associates with smoking behavior and its consequences,"
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The story recounted by Gina Kolata, "Rare mutation kills off gene responsible for diabetes,"
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Gulcher, JR, Vartanian, T, and Stefansson K, "Is Multiple Sclerosis an automimmune disease?"
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Amit V Khera et al, "Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease,"
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experiment: How a tiny island nation captured the lead in the genomic revolution,"
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Adam Piore, "Bring us your genes: A Viking scientist's quest to conquer disease,"
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aneurysm. Among their noteworthy recent discoveries is a rare variant in the
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Halldórsson, Jón Páll; Bjarnar, Jakob; Björnsdottir, Birta (12 April 2020).
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Gulcher, J, Helgason A, Stefansson, K, "Genetic homogeneity of Icelanders,"
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3414:, "A Missense Variant in PLEC Increases Risk of Atrial Fibrillation,"
3235:, "A common variant at 8q24.21 is associated with renal cell cancer,"
2851:, "A common variant at 8q24.21 is associated with renal cell cancer,"
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as well as the Million Veteran Program), Australia, Canada, Dubai,
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M Daly, "2017 William Allan Award Introduction: Kári Stefansson,"
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Jocelyn Kaiser, "Population databases boom from Iceland to U.S.,"
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3883:, "Epigenetic and genetic components of height regulation,"
3532:, Volume 35, pp 131–138, 21 September 2003; S Gretarsdottir
3080:, Volume 23, Issue 11, pp 3045–3053, 1 June 2014; SN Stacey
1654:
archived snapshot of Mannvernd's website from September 2003
4933:
4321:
Quoted in Asher Mullard, "An audience with...Sean Harper,"
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prominently features many deCODE publications and projects.
3902:, "Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease,"
3743:, Volume 39, pp 770–775, 26 April 2007; V Steinthorsdottir
3203:, "Mutations in BRIP1 confer high risk of ovarian cancer,"
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This database is overwhelmingly complete going back to the
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3609:, Volume 40, pp 217–224, 6 January 2008; S Gretarsdottir
3190:, Volume 23, Issue 20, ppages 5545–5557, 15 October 2014.
2961:, Volume 44, pages 1326–1329, 28 October 2012; SN Stacey
1013:"National human genome projects: an update and an agenda"
3400:, Volume 448, pp 353–357, 19 July 2007; DF Gudbjartsson
3362:, volume 42, pp 448–453, 25 April 2010; TE Thorgeirsson
2659:, volume 455, pp 232-6, 11 September 2008; H Stefansson
4676:"Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC): Human DNA Sequencing"
4366:
Statistics in: Nordic Alliance for Clinical Genomics, "
3879:, Volume 40, pp 609–615, 6 April 2008; S Benonisdottir
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volume 40, pp 1307–1312, 14 September 2008; L Kiemeney
2890:, 43(11):1098-103, 25 September 2011; U Styrkarsdottir
2540:
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) conference
2006:
James Butcher, "Kari Stefansson, general of genetics,"
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Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
3349:, vol 452, pp 638–6423, 3 April 2008; TE Thorgeirsson
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volume 44, pp 319–322, 22 January 2012; J Gudmundsson
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volume 41, pp 460–464, 6 February 2009; J Gudmundsson
2637:, Volume 83, Issues 3–4, pp 122-131, 30 September 2010
2625:, "Neuregulin 1 and susceptibility to schizophrenia,"
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4915:
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
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2179:, "A common inversion under selection in Europeans,"
1949:, "Protection of privacy by third-party encryption,"
1619:
Stephen D. Moore, "Biotech firm turns Iceland into,"
934:
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Schizophrenia, other psychiatric disorders, cognition
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Sardinia, Newfoundland, Finland and elsewhere, and a
313:
4552:"Initiative on Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (IRUD)"
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Nicholas Wade, "Company offers genome assessments,"
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Volume 40, pp 1313–1318, 12 October 2008; SN Stacey
2439:, Vol. 319, Issue 5864, pp. 813-816, 8 February 2008
2337:, "The Y chromosome point mutation rate in humans,"
1766:, "Biology reborn: A genetic science breakthrough,"
4728:
American Society of Human Genetics press release, "
2834:, 40(11):1307-12, 14 September 2008; J Gudmundsson
2824:, Volume 39, pp 631–637, 1 April 2007; LA Kiemeney
2114:
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874:in Vargold, a series of graphic novels inspired by
863:where he engaged in controversial debate with late
4965:"Óðinn alvitri og Kári Stefáns renna saman í eitt"
3889:, Volume 7, Article number 13490, 16 November 2016
3474:Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
3299:Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
3084:, "New basal cell carcinoma susceptibility loci,"
2948:, 41(10):1122-6, 20 September 2009; J Gudmundsson
2799:Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
2729:, volume 23, issue 1, pp 485-492, 25 February 2017
2417:, Vol. 360, Issue 6392, pp. 1028-1032, 1 June 2018
779:He has also received Iceland's highest honor, the
4947:
4293:The best known example of this the inhibitors of
4231:Emily Singer, "DeCODE ditches drug development,"
3242:volume 4, Article number: 2776, 13 November 2013.
3170:, volume 42, pp 415–419, 28 March 2010; T Rafnar
2324:, Vol. 363, Issue 6425, eaau1043, 25 January 2019
1590:, 54(6): 1060–1066, June 1994; Melanie M Mahtani
1131:"Sólveig Káradóttir að skilja við Dhani Harrison"
906:; in Iceland he is referred to by the given name
692:The Iceland population approach as a global model
670:
292:the inherited component of any phenotype or trait
256:and division chief of neuropathology at Boston's
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3135:volume 8, article number 14517, 14 February 2017
3070:, Volume 41, pp 909–914, 5 July 2009; SN Stacey
3049:, Volume 40, pp 886–891, 18 May 2008; SN Stacey
3014:, volume 39, pp 865–869, 27 May 2007; SN Stacey
2385:, 67(3): 697–717, 7 August 2000; and A Helgason
2157:, "Reproduction rate and reproductive success,"
1672:Innovations: Technology Governance Globalization
790:, and received the International KFJ Award from
2938:, 40(3):281-3, 10 February 2008; J Gudmundsson
2857:, Vol 4, Article number: 2776, 13 November 2013
2760:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1556:Quoted in Michael Specter, "Decoding Iceland,"
910:, but internationally he may be referred to as
409:
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4854:. National Academy of Sciences. 30 April 2019.
3283:, Volume 164, Issue 1, pp 1-91, 1 January 2006
2682:, Volume 8, Article number 15833, 13 June 2017
2602:, 368(2):107-16, 10 January 2013; S Steinberg
1976:deCODE's 2003 annual report filed with the SEC
1186:"What if You Knew When You Were Going to Die?"
604:Personal genomics and disease risk diagnostics
471:mutations in parents can be passed on.
240:to work under Barry Arnason (coincidentally a
4784:Bob Langreth, "Medical marvels: The E-gang,"
4743:"Icelander receives the William Allan Award,"
3417:Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2971:, 25(5):1008-18, 1 March 2016; J Gudmundsson
1936:(New York: Berghahn Books, 2009), pp. 84–110.
1263:"2019 Human Genome Meeting speaker biography"
530:genes that increase risk of AD.
4594:"Public Portal - Saudi Human Genome Program"
4400:, Volume 111, pp 1238–1240, 9 September 2014
3957:, Volume 9, Article number 987, 7 March 2018
3565:, Volume 70, Issue 3, pp 586-592, March 2002
3542:, Volume 70, Issue 3, pp 593-603, March 2002
3090:volume 6, Article number 6825, 9 April 2015.
2982:Vol 9, Article number: 4568, 8 November 2018
2782:, 1(3):e65, 28 December 2004; T Gudmundsson
2552:, Volume 70, Issue 3, pp 593-603, March 2002
2305:, volume 48, pp 1377–1384, 19 September 2016
776: and the World Economic Forum.
327:, who had used family pedigrees to identify
2257:, volume 549, pp 519–522, 28 September 2017
2210:, volume 467, pp 1099–1103, 28 October 2010
2188:, volume 37, pages 129–137, 16 January 2005
2112:Recent lists of highly cited scientists at
1987:Helen Pearson, "Profile: Kari Stefansson,"
361:
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4415:, Volume 102, Issue 3, p 350, 1 March 2018
3938:, Volume 39, pp 1443–1452, 12 October 2007
2925:, 38(6):652-8, 27 May 2006; J Gudmundsson
2880:, 41(2):221-7, 18 January 2009; SN Stacey
2457:, Volume 37, pages 90–95, 19 December 2004
2283:, Volume 50, pp 1674-1680, 5 November 2018
1482:Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
820:, in which he creates a female version of
539:early 2000s mapped the involvement of the
497:The genetics of common diseases and traits
50:
3431:Volume 1, Article number 68, 12 June 2018
3212:, volume 43, pp 1104–1107, 2 October 2011
2497:, volume 50, pp199–205, 15 January 2018.
2475:, Volume 47, pages 448–452, 25 March 2015
2166:, volume 36, pp 1203–1206, 3 October 2004
1071:. Imperial College London. Archived from
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941:Short biographies of Icelandic physicians
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3979:, Volume 51, pp 267–276, 14 January 2019
3860:, Volume 48, pp 318–322, 1 February 2016
3842:, Volume 41, pp 277–279, 1 February 2009
3497:, Volume 36, pp 233–239, 8 February 2004
3264:, volume 47, pages 906–910, 22 June 2015
2792:, 100(4):476-9, 13 June 2002; S Jonsson
2701:, volume 505, pp 361-6, 18 December 2013
2250:mutations in 1,548 trios from Iceland,"
2246:, "Parental influence on human germline
2233:, volume 488, pp 471–475, 23 August 2012
1820:JL Weber, "The Iceland Map," and A Kong
1365:, Vol. 282, pp. 682-689, 23 October 1998
1331:American Journal of Diseases of Children
756:Anders Jahres Award for Medical Research
613:put Icelanders' genealogies online, the
578:Diabetes and other traits and conditions
4929:"Bobby Fischer Against the World, IMDB"
4658:"TÜRKİYE SAĞLIK ENSTİTÜLERİ BAŞKANLIĞI"
3911:, Volume 452, pp 423–428, 27 March 2008
3721:, Volume 39, pp 218–225, 7 January 2007
3641:, Volume 374, pp 2131-2141, 2 June 2016
3327:, Volume 130, pp 742-752, February 2002
3027:, Volume 40, pp 703–706, 27 April 2008.
1744:, volume 8, pp. 739–742, 3 October 2000
1547:25 August 1997, on the company website.
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2347:, volume 47, pp 453–457, 25 March 2015
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4016:, Volume 46, pp 357–363, 2 March 2014
3622:, Volume 42, pp 692–697, 11 July 2010
3587:, Volume 43, pp 316–320, 6 March 2011
2144:, Volume 31, pp 241–247, 10 June 2002
474:A third source of genomic diversity,
294:, even using low-resolution markers.
244:). There he completed residencies in
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3690:volume 48, pages 634–639, 2 May 2016
2763:, 114 (5) E727-E732, 17 January 2017
2102:https://www.decode.com/publications/
1810:https://www.decode.com/publications/
1696:http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/iceland/
1085:Obituary notice for Stefán Jónsson,
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184:Kari Stefansson was born in 1949 in
163:(born 6 April 1949) is an Icelandic
4388:National Cancer Institute estimates
4284:, Vol 31, pp 975–978, November 2013
4113:Volume 12, pp 839-43, December 2010
2802:, 292(24):2977-83, 22 December 2004
1242:"Staff page, University of Iceland"
935:Gunnlaugur Haraldsson, ed. (2000).
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3562:American Journal of Human Genetics
3539:American Journal of Human Genetics
2628:American Journal of Human Genetics
2549:American Journal of Human Genetics
2395:, 66(3):999-1016, 23 February 2000
2392:American Journal of Human Genetics
2382:American Journal of Human Genetics
1917:UNESCO's registered world heritage
1738:European Journal of Human Genetics
1587:American Journal of Human Genetics
1347:American Journal of Human Genetics
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4918:, Volume 6, Number 2, pp. 193-208
4769:"Einsteins of the 21st century,"
4754:"The Time 100: Kari Stefansson,"
4368:NACG 6th Clinical workshop report
2903:, Vol 497, pp 517–520, 5 May 2013
1334:, 147(11):1145-52 (November 1993)
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1488:36(8):523-7, 1 August 1998
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4377:," 21 November 2018, p.9
3457:Human Molecular Genetics
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5059:Icelandic neurologists
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3451:European Heart Journal
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3407:European Heart Journal
561:Cardiovascular disease
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4340:Company press release
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4172:MIT Technology Review
3954:Nature Communications
3886:Nature Communications
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2978:Nature Communications
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2679:Nature Communications
2119:20 April 2019 at the
1442:ARCH Venture Partners
1434:Alta Venture Partners
1316:Clinical Neuroscience
1029:10.4178/epih.e2017045
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598:Vigdis Finnbogadottir
238:University of Chicago
222:Isaac Bashevis Singer
206:University of Iceland
110:Valgerður Ólafsdóttir
91:University of Iceland
4278:Nature Biotechnology
4262:The science page of
4109:Genetics in Medicine
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1646:Nature Biotechnology
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287:Human Genome Project
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2717:Nature Neuroscience
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1500:Wall Street Journal
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1075:on 21 October 2004.
972:2015Natur.524..503M
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698:William Allan Award
617:and companies like
615:Genographic Project
516:Alzheimer's disease
506:Alzheimer's disease
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1851:Anthropology Today
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254:Harvard University
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