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Kári Stefánsson
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Icelandic neurologist (born 1949)
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Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes.
scientific article published on 12 March 2018
Identification of new susceptibility loci for osteoarthritis (arcOGEN): a genome-wide association study
scientific article
Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height
scientific article (publication date: February 2017)
Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia
scientific article published in October 2013
Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use
scientific article published on 14 January 2019
Genetic inactivation of ANGPTL4 improves glucose homeostasis and is associated with reduced risk of diabetes
scientific article published on 13 June 2018
Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans
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Common variants near FRK/COL10A1 and VEGFA are associated with advanced age-related macular degeneration
scientific article
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies eight new susceptibility loci for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
scientific article published on 10 February 2020
Genome-wide association study using extreme truncate selection identifies novel genes affecting bone mineral density and fracture risk
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Kári Stefánsson (born 6 April 1949) is an Icelandic neurologist and founder and CEO of Reykjavík-based biopharmaceutical company deCODE genetics. In Iceland he has pioneered the use of population-scale genetics to understand variation in the sequence of the human genome. His work has focused on how genomic diversity is generated and on the...

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Member of
National Academy of Sciences
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Neurologist
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