California company unveils new genome technique

Pacific Biosciences of Menlo Park, hopes to be able to read a person's genome in about half an hour by about 2010.

Phoenician genetic legacy

1 in 17 men in the mediteranean area may be descended from a phoenician man.
Highest frequencies of phoenician haplotypes were in Tangiers, western Sicily,Cyprus and Lebanon area.

Haplotypes J2 and E3B were found in high frequencies in those areas.

Genes linked to drug addiction

Scientists believe that genetic factors is involved in 70% of cases of cocaine addictions.
A variant ofthe CAMK4 gene has been linked to cocaine addiction.