{"id":48302,"date":"2022-06-12T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2022-06-12\/la-isla-que-revelo-la-esencia-del-ser-humano.html"},"modified":"2022-06-12T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T03:20:00","slug":"la-isla-que-revelo-la-esencia-del-ser-humano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/la-isla-que-revelo-la-esencia-del-ser-humano\/","title":{"rendered":"The island that revealed the essence of the human being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a man who has the blood of almost everyone in his country stored under his office. Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decode.com\/management\/\">K\u00e1ri Stef\u00e1nsson<\/a>, a visionary 73-year-old Icelandic doctor who, a quarter of a century ago, had an ambitious idea: to use his unique native nation, a volcanic island attached to the Arctic Circle, as a gigantic laboratory to unravel the essence of the human being. More than half of the population, some 180,000 volunteers, have responded to Stef\u00e1nsson&#039;s call during this time. The company he founded and runs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decode.com\/\">deCODE<\/a>, has analyzed the DNA of all of them, revealing thousands of genetic variants linked to common diseases, such as cancer and Alzheimer&#039;s. This is what the geneticist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/farewell-dr-francis-collins\">Francis Collins<\/a>, former director of the United States National Institutes of Health, calls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Language-of-God\/Francis-S-Collins\/9781416542742\">\u201cthe language of God\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2022-06-12\/la-isla-que-revelo-la-esencia-del-ser-humano.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter of a century ago, doctor K\u00e1ri Stef\u00e1nsson undertook an enormous task: reading the DNA of the inhabitants of Iceland in search of the secrets of life and the genetic causes of diseases.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48303,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48302\/revisions\/48303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}