Undersökningar gjorda i samarbete mellan den isländska tolvstegsbehandlingen och deCode´(http://www.decode.is/) och av genforskare inom deCode var i fokus för konferens i Island nyligen.

Det som förelästes om bygger på nedanstående forskning:

1. T. Tyrfingsson et al., Addictions and their familiality in Iceland. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1187, 208 (Feb, 2010).
2. G. Schumann et al., Genome-wide association and genetic functional studies identify autism susceptibility candidate 2 gene (AUTS2) in the regulation of alcohol consumption. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, 7119 (Apr 26, 2011).
3. T. E. Thorgeirsson et al., A variant associated with nicotine dependence, lung cancer and peripheral arterial disease. Nature 452, 638 (Apr 3, 2008).
4. T. E. Thorgeirsson et al., Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior. Nature genetics 42, 448 (May, 2010).
5. T. E. Thorgeirsson, K. Stefansson, Commentary: gene-environment interactions and smoking-related cancers. International Journal of Epidemiology 39, 577 (Apr, 2010).
6. T. E. Thorgeirsson, K. Stefansson, Genetics of smoking behavior and its consequences: the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Biological psychiatry 64, 919 (Dec 1, 2008).
7. T. Rafnar et al., Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types. Nature genetics 41, 221 (Feb, 2009).
8. T. Rafnar et al., Genome-wide significant association between a sequence variant at 15q15.2 and lung cancer risk. Cancer research 71, 1356 (Feb 15, 2011).
9. E. K. Speliotes et al., Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nature genetics 42, 937 (Nov, 2010).
10. T. E. Thorgeirsson et al., A common biological basis of obesity and nicotine addiction. Translational psychiatry 3, e308 (2013).