01-30-2006, 02:20 PM
Quote:A GENETIC study of more than 3000 people worldwide has solved one of life's mysteries: why some people have dry earwax while others exude a brown sticky goo.
European and African people tend to have wet, sticky earwax while dry wax is common among people with east-Asian ancestry.
To find out why, Japanese researchers genetically tested 64 Japanese people with the dry type and 54 Japanese people with the wet type. They found that, of the 3 billion pairs of letters that make up the human genetic code, a variation in just one letter determined the type of wax a person was born with.
full article: http://smh.com.au/news/world/ancient-mys...41893.html
