The discovery points the way to new
predictive diagnostic markers and drug targets for RA Reykjavik, ICELAND and Basel, SWITZERLAND, November 29, 2001 — deCODE genetics (Nasdaq / Nasdaq Europe: DCGN) and Roche today announced that deCODE scientists have mapped the first...
As
markers flanking and successively closer to the disease gene are identified, the accuracy of a
diagnostic linkage test is improved, but even relatively distant
markers give some
predictive information.