it's the founder's wife's company but who cares...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google is backing a fledgling biotech firm started by the bride of the world-renowned Internet search engine's co-founder Sergey Brin.

In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, Google revealed it invested approximately 3.9 million dollars in 23andMe, a company co-founded by Anne Wojcicki in 2006.

Wojcicki and Brin married earlier this month in a private ceremony.

Wojcicki's company is focused on helping people "understand and browse their genome," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said in the filing.

"Google invested in 23andMe as its goal of developing new ways to help people make sense of their genetic information will help us further our mission of organizing the world's information in this new and important field," a Google spokesman told AFP.

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