CDR: sieving the gene pool -not just Iceland

Estonia plans to raise between 1e8 and 1.5e8 dollars for a project to begin next year, to "compile DNA profiles and health information on75%ofthe country's 1.4 million citizens" ... "by contrast, [to Iceland's anonymity] the data and DNA samples in the Estonian project will be identifiable through a coded system." The project will keep samples too; citizens can opt out and samples will be destroyed. _Science v 290 6 Oct 2000 p 31 "Estonia prepares for national DNA database" (And I realize this still doesn't make Estonia part of Scandanavia.. :-)