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Mar 26, 2015, 08:58 ET Retrato genómico de una nación

Los mayores estudios acerca de los datos del genoma completo jamás publicados revelan el poder de la revolución de la secuenciación para comprender...

Mar 25, 2015, 02:00 ET The Genomic Portrait of a Nation

The largest studies of whole-genome data ever published reveal the power of the sequencing revolution for understanding the roots of disease,...

Dec 18, 2013, 01:00 ET deCODE genetics Uncovers Impact of Mutations in The Human Genome on Cognitive Ability

deCODE genetics, a global leader in analyzing and understanding the human genome, reported today in the journal Nature that mutations associated with ...

May 05, 2013, 01:00 ET A Mutation Discovered in Iceland that Increases Risks of Osteoporosis and Certain Cancers

deCODE genetics (an Amgen subsidiary) and Illumina, global leaders in analyzing and understanding the human genome, together with scientists from the ...

Jan 22, 2012, 01:00 ET deCODE Genetics, in Collaboration with Academic Colleagues, Discovers Three Variants in the Sequence of the Human Genome that Affect the Risk of Thyroid Cancer

Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, the USA, The Netherlands and Spaintoday report the discovery of variants in...

Oct 12, 2011, 01:00 ET deCODE Announces Agreement With Pfizer to Search for Variants in the Human Genome That Confer Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosis

deCODE genetics today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Pfizer Inc., the objective of which is to discover sequence...

Oct 09, 2011, 01:06 ET deCODE Genetics, in Collaboration with Academic Colleagues and Illumina, Discovers Two Rare Variants that Affect the Risk of Gout and Serum Uric Acid Levels

Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the USA today report the discovery of low ...