In a step towards the long-awaited era of personalized medicine, Iceland's DeCode Genetics has discovered a new genetic risk factor for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.

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"This is the strongest genetic risk factor yet" for osteoporosis, says Chief Executive Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured position at Harvard in the 1990s to found DeCode.

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Many of the players also share a genetic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases, so perhaps deposits of tau are the result of brain trauma coupled with the weakened ability of the brain to repair itself.

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Permitting the non-disclosure of a pivotal risk factor, such as a genetic-test result, would undermine one of the fundamentals of insurance.

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