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Who’s afraid of genetic testing?
As a deCODEyou reader, you have an active interest in how genetics can help to improve personal health and healthcare. If you are a deCODEme subscriber or have taken one of our DNA-based diagnostic tests, you have already followed up on that interest.
Then again, you may not have had your genome analyzed yet. You may simply be interested in taking part in research, having a scan, or simply in keeping up with the latest discoveries.
But whoever you are, your genome is information about you. And at deCODE, we believe that your genome belongs to you. Over the past decade we have worked with hundreds of thousands individuals who have decided to use their genome to advance our gene discovery work, to understand their risk of a certain disease, or who want to have a broad and constantly updated look at their genome through deCODEme. In every case, we think it is the individual who has the right to decide to use their genome and learn about it as they wish.
New deCODE analytical tool multiplies power to discover rare genetic risk factors for common diseases
On Sunday, August 17, deCODE published a new statistical method for increasing the information that can be derived from high-density genotyping, leveraging the genotypic data the company has already generated
on tens of thousands of participants in its gene discovery programs. In the above video, CEO Kari Stefansson, the company’s head statistician Augustine Kong, and Chief of Communications Edward Farmer talk about how this method works and why it may help deCODE to find rarer variants conferring risk of common diseases.
