deCODE Genetics at ASHG 2026

Oct 20–24, 2026 Montréal, Canada ~7.5k attendees Website

deCODE Genetics at ASHG 2026 in Montréal: 4 presentations (3 posters, 1 platform talk).

Organization	ASHG 2026 Attendance
deCODE Genetics Reykjavik, IS	1 Head of Sequence Analysis · 1 Research Scientist · 1 Scientist · 1 Phd Student
decode.com\|LinkedIn Subsidiary~200 people deCODE analyzes human genomes and population data for disease discovery. It develops genomic software and research tools for human genetics. Amgen's deCODE genetics constructed the first Icelandic pangenome, identifying more genetic variants and disease-risk insights. › Amgen's deCODE genetics constructed the first Icelandic pangenome, identifying more genetic variants and disease-risk insights. 2026-08 · source deCODE genetics data from about 12,000 Icelandic participants contributed to a landmark fibromyalgia genetics study. 2026-07 · source Amgen's deCODE genetics appointed Daníel Guðbjartsson as associate vice president and site head, a new local leadership contact. 2026-05 · source Source: company newsroom	Poster Wed Oct 21 2:30 pm Part of Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Poster Wednesday Session The Icelandic pangenome reference Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 8470W BioinformaticsExome/genome sequencingLong-read sequencingNervous system Poster Wed Oct 21 2:30 pm Part of Late-Breaking Poster Wednesday Session The contribution of genetics to childhood BMI has increased over the last century Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 4013W Collaborators: University of Iceland, National University Hospital of Iceland ObesityStatistical geneticsPolygenic risk scoreGenetic epidemiology Talk Thu Oct 22 8:15 am Part of The Long and Short of It: Long-Read Genomics from Biobanks to the Clinic Association analyses from Oxford Nanopore long read sequenced genomes of UK Biobank participants Room 517BC/Level 5 Collaborators: UK Biobank DatabasesEpigenome-wide association studiesExome/genome sequencingGenomics Poster Thu Oct 22 4:15 pm ★ Reviewers’ Choice Part of Cancer Poster Thursday Session Repeat expansions confer dose-dependent protection against cancer Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 1058T Collaborators: Reykjavík University, University of Iceland +14 more CancerCopy number/structural variationGenome-wide association studyLong-read sequencing Attendee …At Booth 901, [name] from Amgen deCODE genetics will present how his team sequenced 50,000 individuals from the UK Biobank on Oxford Nanopore's platform…View post on LinkedInPosted Sep 28, 2026

Organization

ASHG 2026 Attendance

deCODE Genetics

Reykjavik, IS

1 Head of Sequence Analysis · 1 Research Scientist · 1 Scientist · 1 Phd Student

decode.com|LinkedIn

Subsidiary~200 people

deCODE analyzes human genomes and population data for disease discovery. It develops genomic software and research tools for human genetics.

Amgen's deCODE genetics constructed the first Icelandic pangenome, identifying more genetic variants and disease-risk insights.

›

Amgen's deCODE genetics constructed the first Icelandic pangenome, identifying more genetic variants and disease-risk insights.

2026-08 · source

deCODE genetics data from about 12,000 Icelandic participants contributed to a landmark fibromyalgia genetics study.

2026-07 · source

Amgen's deCODE genetics appointed Daníel Guðbjartsson as associate vice president and site head, a new local leadership contact.

2026-05 · source

Source: company newsroom

Poster

Wed Oct 21
2:30 pm

Part of Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Poster Wednesday Session

The Icelandic pangenome reference

Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 8470W

BioinformaticsExome/genome sequencingLong-read sequencingNervous system

Poster

Wed Oct 21
2:30 pm

Part of Late-Breaking Poster Wednesday Session

The contribution of genetics to childhood BMI has increased over the last century

Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 4013W

Collaborators: University of Iceland, National University Hospital of Iceland

ObesityStatistical geneticsPolygenic risk scoreGenetic epidemiology

Talk

Thu Oct 22
8:15 am

Part of The Long and Short of It: Long-Read Genomics from Biobanks to the Clinic

Association analyses from Oxford Nanopore long read sequenced genomes of UK Biobank participants

Room 517BC/Level 5

Collaborators: UK Biobank

DatabasesEpigenome-wide association studiesExome/genome sequencingGenomics

Poster

Thu Oct 22
4:15 pm

★ Reviewers’ Choice

Part of Cancer Poster Thursday Session

Repeat expansions confer dose-dependent protection against cancer

Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 1058T

Collaborators: Reykjavík University, University of Iceland +14 more

CancerCopy number/structural variationGenome-wide association studyLong-read sequencing

Attendee

…At Booth 901, [name] from Amgen deCODE genetics will present how his team sequenced 50,000 individuals from the UK Biobank on Oxford Nanopore's platform…View post on LinkedInPosted Sep 28, 2026

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