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Science 1 January 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5398, p. 13
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5398.13a
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HUMAN GENETICS:
Iceland OKs Private Health Databank

Martin Enserink

The Icelandic parliament has given a private company permission to build a database containing the health records of the entire nation. The company, deCODE Genetics of Reykjavik, expects this information to greatly speed up its search for disease-causing genes, on which diagnostic tests and therapies could be based. But critics of the controversial legislation, passed 16 December, immediately pledged to find ways to block its implementation.

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