Iceland has kept medical data on its population for more than a century, including records of the deceased. By combining both stored and newly collected blood and tissue samples, and supplementing these with detailed genealogical charts and records, the biotechnology company believes that it has gained a head start in searching for genes that are implicated in human disease.
近一个世纪以来，冰岛保留了全部人口的医疗记录，资料中甚至包括那些已经去世的人。通过将已有和新搜集的血液组织样本合并到一起，并用详细的基因图谱和记录加以补充，这家生物技术公司相信，他们已经在人类疾病所含基因信息的研究上取得了进展。