Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Iceland's Tiny, Isolated Population Makes It the Perfect Genetics Lab 


A millenium ago, a group settled in Iceland and have stayed there ever since, with few people coming and going. And so their DNA has stayed remarkably homogenous. That's a major boon for genetics researchers, who today have released the results of sequencing the complete genomes of 2,636 Icelanders—the largest such countrywide project ever.


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