I am one of those ass scientists. And no, we won't just blatantly use your DNA in Anwar's case.

The only reason I created this account is to reply to the person I quoted in my first post. Calling us 'ass scientist' is uncalled for and I think the people who have been working for this project does not really deserve to be called that. Many of our people complained about how Malaysia is way behind in terms of research compared to other countries. And right now, we are seriously trying to make an effort here.

We are not in collaboration with the National Geographic's Genographic project (no partnership), although the idea is somewhat similar. Next-generation sequencing is the best technology today in hoping for a better understanding of human and its genome, which is why scientists from other countries are doing the same thing.
The aim of this project is to sequence our ethnic groups and build an online database of Malaysian Population. Although humans from all around the world have already sequenced the whole human genome, most of the databases online are for Caucasians, Europeans, and for Asians mostly the databases comes from a Japanese or a Chinese.
What we are really hoping to achieve is to build our own database, of our own people. Where we can study our similarities and differences, which can lead to better understanding of common diseases and their susceptibility to us due to our genome, among other things.