The isolation of Iceland’s population may prove to be of huge value in the treatment of diseases, because of the ability to see patterns in DNA. Iceland has a particularly small population, and the genetics are traceable from a very small ancestral pool. The genetics of a relatively large portion of the population has already been being studied for some time, and this advance work will likely prove helpful to the pharmaceutical company which has purchased the rights to the research.
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