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  <p align="center" style="color:windowtext;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold;">FORM&nbsp;8-K</font></b></p>
  
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  <p align="center" style="color:windowtext;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;">CURRENT REPORT</font></b></p>
  
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  <p align="center" style="color:windowtext;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) <b>May&nbsp;1,
  2008</b></font></p>
  
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  <p align="center" style="color:windowtext;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold;">deCODE
  genetics,&nbsp;Inc.</font></b></p>
  
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  <p style="color:windowtext;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Item 2.02.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Results of
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  containing financial information regarding its results of operations and
  financial condition for the quarter ended March&nbsp;31, 2008.&#160; Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 hereto, which is being
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text: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
  Washington, D.C.  20549
  FORM 8-K
  CURRENT REPORT
  PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or
  15(d) OF THE
  SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
  Date of report (Date of earliest event reported)
  May 1,
  2008
  deCODE
  genetics, Inc.
  (Exact Name of Registrant as
  Specified in Charter)
  Delaware
  000-30469
  04-3326704
  (State or Other Juris-
  (Commission
  (I.R.S. Employer
  diction of
    Incorporation)
  File Number)
  Identification No.)
  Sturlugata 8, IS-101 Reykjavik,
  Iceland
  (Address of Principal Executive Offices)
  Registrant's telephone number, including area code
  +354-570-1900
  (Former Name or Former
  Address, If Changed Since Last Report)
  Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K
  filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the
  registrant under any of the following provisions:
  o
  Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under
    the Securities Act
  o
  Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under
    the Exchange Act
  o
  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to
    Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act
  o
  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to
    Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act
  Item 2.02.              Results of
  Operations and Financial Condition
  On May 1,
  2008, deCODE genetics, Inc. issued a press release (the "Release")
  containing financial information regarding its results of operations and
  financial condition for the quarter ended March 31, 2008.  Exhibit 99.1 hereto, which is being
  furnished and not filed herewith, contains the text of the Release.
  Item 9.01.    Financial
  Statements and Exhibits.
  (d)   Exhibits
  99.1
  Press
  Release issued May 1, 2008
  2
  SIGNATURE
  Pursuant to the requirements of
  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report
  to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
  deCODE genetics, Inc.
  By:
  /s/ KARI STEFANSSON
  Kari
    Stefansson,
  President, Chief Executive Officer
  Dated:  May 6, 2008
  3