From Wired News Furthermore:
DNA analysis is moving way beyond the laboratory these days. At Shish, a hip London diner specializing in grilled kebabs, male customers can take a DNA test to discover whether they might be related to the rampaging Genghis Khan. For $330, the test will determine whether certain markers on a customer’s Y chromosome match the Genghis Khan pattern. “We’ve had Mongolian people who’ve traveled across London to give us their details,” said Shish’s bar manager. And in other DNA developments, Indianapolis scientists solved a timber theft case by matching the stump of a stolen black walnut tree with two logs sold to a lumber mill 60 miles away. Said a Purdue University genetic scientist, “This DNA technology put the log back on the stump.”