Jun 20, 2024 | NEWS
A new study from deCODE genetics and Collaborators is the first to uncover a strong recessive component in Alzheimer’s disease. Hreinn Stefansson scientist at deCODE Genetics and first author of the paper. deCODE genetics/Amgen, and collaborators from Iceland, USA,...
Jun 6, 2024 | NEWS
A new study from deCODE genetics uses pedigrees and sequence data from 64,806 Icelanders to shed light on the rate and nature of mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the peculiar dynamics of its maternal transmission. Kári Stefánsson, Erla Rut Árnadóttir og...
May 2, 2024 | NEWS
Ástrós Thorarensen Skúladóttir is the project leader of the study in Communications Biology. Scientists at deCODE genetics and their collaborators have revealed 12 sequence variants that affect the risk of ET, (Essential tremor) providing important insights into its...
Jan 29, 2024 | NEWS
Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, and their collaborators from Iceland, Denmark, and the USA published a study today in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology titled “Variant in the synaptonemal complex protein SYCE2 associates with pregnancy loss...
Jan 3, 2024 | NEWS
In the paper, Obesity variants in the GIPR gene do not associate with risk of fracture or bone mineral density” published in the JCEM, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, scientists from deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, and...