Ozzy Osbourne is the first rock star to give his DNA to science. As reported in Scientific American in October 2010 Ozzy Osbourne has become one of the few to have their entire genome sequenced. Osbourne’s DNA was sequenced and analyzed by Cofactor Genomics and Knome Inc. According to Knome’s analysis Ozzy Osbourne has some Neandertal in his DNA.
“For a long time we thought that Neandertals didn’t have any descendents today, but it turns out that Asians and Europeans have some evidence of Neandertal lineage—like a drop in the bucket,” Pearson told Scientific American. “We found a little segment on Ozzy’s chromosome 10 that very likely traces back to a Neandertal forebearer.”
Pearson went on to caution that we are very early on in this particular field and that it is going to be sometime before there is enough data to understand the human genome.
