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Nov 20 2009
According the NY Times, deCode Genetics filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday. This in my mind is the last nail in the GWAS coffin. deCode and the many other people pushing technological solutions to complex problems in human genetics have failed because they assumed there was a simple relationship between genotype and phenotype. The optimism expressed by Altschuler at the end of this news article is the last gasp from those going down with the sinking ship.

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