deCODE Genetics, Multinational Research Team Find Gene Variant Conferring High Risk for Common, Late-Onset Form of Alzheimer’s Disease

Nov 14, 2012 | NEWS

Findings Published in New England Journal of Medicine Provide New Focus for Drug Discovery Study Demonstrates Power of “Big Data” Research REYKJAVIK, Iceland – deCODE Genetics and Illumina, global leaders in analyzing and understanding the human genome, together...

deCODE Genetics Study Finds Father’s Age—Not Mother’s Critical to New Mutations Passed to Offspring

Aug 23, 2012 | NEWS

Nature Published Study Signals Rise in Autism Spectrum Disorder May Be Partially Tied to Increasing Age of Fathers at Time When Children are Conceived deCODE Genetics, a global leader in analyzing and understanding the human genome, in collaboration with Illumina, a...

deCODE Genetics Discovers Mutation Conferring Protection Against Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline in Elderly

Jul 11, 2012 | NEWS

Study Indicates Link Between Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease Results Support Drug Development of BACE1 Inhibitors for Alzheimer’s Disease Reykjavik, ICELAND, July 11, 2012 – deCODE Genetics, a global leader in analyzing and understanding the...

deCODE Genetics, in Collaboration with Academic Colleagues, Discovers Three Variants in the Sequence of the Human Genome that Affect the Risk of Thyroid Cancer

Jan 22, 2012 | NEWS

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 22 January 2012 – Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, the USA, The Netherlands and Spain today report the discovery of variants in the human genome that associate with levels of thyroid stimulating hormone and...

deCODE Announces Agreement with Pfizer to Search for Variants in the Human Genome that Confer Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosis

Oct 12, 2011 | NEWS

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 12 October 2011 – deCODE genetics today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Pfizer Inc., the objective of which is to discover sequence variants associated with specific clinical phenotypes related to Systemic Lupus...

deCODE Genetics, in Collaboration with Academic Colleagues and Illumina, Discovers Two Rare Variants that Affect the Risk of Gout and Serum Uric Acid Levels

Oct 9, 2011 | NEWS

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 9 October 2011 – Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the USA today report the discovery of low frequency variants in the human genome that associate with risk of gout, a common...