Editing DeCODE genetics (section)

==Appearances in popular culture==
The work of deCODE is criticised by Arnaldur Indriðason's novel ''[[Jar City]]'' from 2000, which was adapted into a [[Jar City (film)|2006 film of the same name]].<ref>Burke, Lucy, 'Genetics and the Scene of the Crime: DeCODING ''Tainted Blood''<nowiki/>', ''Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies'', 6 (2012), 193–208. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2012.16.</ref>

deCODE and Kári Stefánsson are satirised as VikingDNA and Professor Lárus Jóhannsson in ''[[Dauðans óvissi tími]]'' by [[Þráinn Bertelsson]] (Reykjavík: JPV Útgáfu, 2004).

deCODE and specifically Kári Stefánsson is presented as the creator of monstrous genetic hybrids in [[Óttar M. Norðfjörð|Óttar M. Norðfjörð's]] satirical 2007 work ''Jón Ásgeir & afmælisveislan ''(Reykjavík: Sögur, 2007), and the history of DeCODE appears both directly and in allegorised form (under the fictional name OriGenes) in the same author's novel ''[[Lygarinn: Sönn saga]]'' (Reykjavík: Sögur, 2011). deCODE is the model for the company CoDex, in ''CoDex 1962'' by [[Sjón]].<ref>Reykjavík: JPV, 2016.</ref><ref>Einar Kári Jóhannsson, '[https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/30273/1/%C3%9Ej%C3%B3%C3%B0sagaSj%C3%B3ns.Einar.K%C3%A1ri..pdf Þjóð(ar)saga Sjóns: Pólitísk ummyndun á sameiginlegum minningum Íslendinga í sögulegum skáldverkum Sjóns]' (unpublished MA thesis, University of Iceland, 2018), p. 67.</ref>