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The efforts of bioinformatics company deCode Genetics are starting to pay
off. Earlier this year, the Reykjavik-based company struck a deal with the
Icelandic government that gives it exclusive access to citizens’ medical
records. Now researchers at deCode have identified a gene linked to
schizophrenia, the first of its kind to be found, by scanning the genomes of 400
people with the condition and comparing them to 400 unaffected relatives.
ÒÁÈ˾þÃs at Swiss drugs giant Roche will now study the gene to try to
understand its role in the disease.