deCODE Genetics has announced the launch of deCODE T2™, a DNA-based reference laboratory test for the first common and well-validated genetic risk factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Because the region of chromosome 5p15 is of interest in cancerbiology, the deCODE team then tested this SNP for association with 16different types of cancer in a total of nearly 80,000 cancer ...