Unifactorial models are not appropriate for multifactorial disease

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EDITOR—Berger recently discussed the ethical problems of selling Icelandic pedigrees so that genes predisposing to common disorders could be patented.1 The technical problem “will it work” is also of interest. The belief that multifactorial disorders can be analysed by unifactorial methods underlies the ancestral approach of deCODE. The company claims, with justification, that it has “formidable capabilities in statistical genetics and uses state of the art techniques of statistical analysis. Since deCODE has …

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