Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neandertal Lineage

[somone]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ozzy-osbourne-genome

Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neandertal Lineage
What genetic oddities does rock's Prince of Darkness and beheader of bats have entangled deep in his genetic code? Knome, the company that analyzed Ozzy's full genome, divulges some of the details in a Q&A
By Katherine Harmon

The one-time front man for heavy metal band Black Sabbath has joined the likes of DNA co-discoverer James Watson and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates on the short roster of people to have their full genome sequenced and analyzed.

Ozzy Osbourne let a little blood to submit to the testing in July. Cofactor Genomics, a Saint Louis–based company, sequenced Osbourne's genome; Knome, Inc., which also helped raise money for the project, analyzed the data. For his part, Osbourne was at first skeptical about the project, he explained in his October 24 Sunday Times of London column. But the platinum-record artist then began to wonder if he, in fact, might have something to offer science.

"I was curious," he wrote in his column. "Given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years—not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol…you name it—there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why."

But what can a bunch of genetic code tell us about someone's propensity to become the ordained "Godfather of Heavy Metal" or to bite the head off a live bat on stage? Scientific American spoke with Jorge Conde, co-founder and chief executive of Cambridge, Mass.–based Knome, and Nathan Pearson, the company's director of research, who had sat down with Ozzy earlier to go over the results of the analysis...

[MrScorpio]

1. Sharron Osbourne's best seller,,,

"I Married A Teenage Caveman"

[xchrom]

2. i read that -- and i was like 'of course'. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. He annunciates like his ancient relatives

I can't understand him half the time.

Interesting finding and its in a good magazine that has to be reviewed
before things are submitted.

[intaglio]

4. Cool

On the subject of his pronunciation please remember the (real) brain damage he has suffered

[Odin2005]

5. Oh my!

:rofl:

[MilesColtrane]

6. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the new spokesman for Geico Insurance.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. He's also related to Jesse James, Tsar Nicolas II and George I!