Andries J. van Tonder, James E. Bray, Lucy Roalfe, Rebecca White, Marta Zancolli, Sigríður J. Quirk, Gunnsteinn Haraldsson, Keith A. Jolley, Martin C. J. Maiden, Stephen D. Bentley, Ásgeir Haraldsson, Helga Erlendsdóttir, Karl G. Kristinsson, David Goldblatt, Angela B. Brueggemann Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Zoology, University of...

Received 4 April 1972. * Cytogenetics Laboratory, Genetics Committee of the University of Iceland, Department of Pathology, Reykjavik, Iceland. t Paediatric Department, University Hospital Iceland; Home for the Mentally Retarded, K6pavogur; Paediatric Department, St Joseph's Hospital, Reykiavik, Iceland. t John F. Kennedy Instituttet, GI. Landevej 7-9, Copenhagen, Denmark. ** Faculty of Medicin...

Influenza epidemics exhibit a strongly seasonal pattern, with winter peaks that occur with similar timing across temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. This synchrony could be influenced by population movements, environmental factors, host immunity, and viral characteristics. The historical isolation of Iceland and subsequent increase in international contacts make it an ideal setting to s...

Author details Capital Region Blood Bank, Rigshospitalet Section for Transfusion Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej, 9DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Medical School, Houston, TX, USA. Centre for Systems Biology, The School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. Department o...

Pavel F. Bessarab,1,2 Valery M. Uzdin,2,3 and Hannes Jónsson1 1Science Institute and Faculty of Science, VR-III, University of Iceland, 107 Reykjavı́k, Iceland 2Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russia 3St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia (Received 14 November 2011; revised...

1 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 2 Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 3 Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 4 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 5 Centre for Publi...

Influenza epidemics exhibit a strongly seasonal pattern, with winter peaks that occur with similar timing across temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. This synchrony could be influenced by population movements, environmental factors, host immunity, and viral characteristics. The historical isolation of Iceland and subsequent increase in international contacts make it an ideal setting to s...

The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath Iceland, the keys to understanding the magma plumbing system of the hotspot and hotspot–ridge interaction, was poorly constrained in previous seismological investigations. Here we develop a three-dimensional P-wave velocity model of the Icelandic crust and uppermost mantle from tomographic inversion of over 3500 first-arrivals from local e...

The Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) initiative provides standardised estimates of the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worldwide. We estimate the current and future economic burden of COPD in Reykjavik, Iceland and Bergen, Norway using data from the BOLD initiative. Data on utilisation of healthcare resources were gathered from the BOLD survey, existing literatur...

Dab (Limanda limanda) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) were collected from coastal and offshore locations in the Baltic (dab only), North Sea (haddock from one location only) and Iceland. Blood was analysed for DNA strand breaks using the comet assay and liver samples for DNA adduct concentrations. DNA strand breaks were at background levels in dab from the two Iceland locations and from ...