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Stefansson
Vilhjalmur . 1879--1962, Canadian explorer, noted for his books on the Inuit


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As an example, Taubes points out that the diet discovered by Stefansson in the 1920s, which consists entirely of animal products and green vegetables, and is entirely devoid of starches, sugar, and flour, still has not been tested.
Researchers led by Kari Stefansson of deCODE Genetics, a company based in Reykjavik, Iceland, compared the genomes of 452 essential tremor patients from Iceland against a control group of 14,394 persons.
This study is a major contribution to the use of ancient DNA studies in tracing the history not just of single populations, but of our species and how we spread from Africa to every corner of the globe," said Kari Stefansson, CEO of deCODE.
 
 
 
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