On Twitter, Albert Vernon Smith, a geneticist at the University of Iceland, wrote that there was unhappiness that a U.S. company would now control Icelandic genetic samples.

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DeCode is a small, unprofitable biotech firm founded by the genetics visionary Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured post at Harvard University to go back to Iceland and probe the genetics of an entire country.

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