The researchers studied DNA and hair colour information from hundreds of Europeans. They investigated genes previously known to influence the differences in hair colour.

研究者已调查了数以百计欧洲人的DNA及发色信息，并研究了预先知晓的决定发色的基因。

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This is important information whether or not any of [the genes involved] turn out to be common causes of schizophrenia in the population.

这项研究是“描述基因缺失如何与大脑机能障碍相关的重要步骤，”她接着说，“无论有没有基因被证明是精神分裂症的普遍病因，这都是重要的信息。”

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“To enable life you need genes and proteins, which are information and machines,” said molecular biologist Michael Hecht of Princeton University, co-author of the study published online in PLoS ONE.

普里斯顿大学的分子生物学家迈克尔赫奇特先生，在线公共科学图书馆文献的共同作者，指出：“基因和蛋白质使生命成为可能，基因和蛋白质是建造生命的材料和机器。 基因和蛋白质在一个相当漫长的时间里不断的进化，但是我们也需要问这样的问题：‘它们真的很独特吗？

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All the information in its genes is organized into more than one million letters.

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Other scientists can now use existing databases to sort out the information, and look at the genes involved in the spread of the fungus.

BBC: Ash fungus genetic data released

The site will also include information on ancestry, as well as information about genes involved in physical traits like hair color.

FORBES: Personal Genome Race Goes Into Overdrive

They used information from a vast database at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore that pulled together research from around the world on diseases and genes they were linked to.

WSJ: Genes May Link Disparate Diseases