It's great that she donated her body to science instead of letting it go to waste rotting in the ground.<p>It's also great that they didn't try to patent her genetics and that they're being shared with other researchers. This is how it's supposed to be done.
Just read this on a Dutch newspapers' site. Not sure why the BBC site says her identity is secret, she is mentioned by name and it even has a picture of her:<p>(dutch article)
<a href="http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2672/Wetenschap-Gezondheid/article/detail/2969042/2011/10/15/Oudste-Nederlandse-vrouw-had-bijzondere-genen.dhtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2672/Wetenschap-Gezondheid/ar...</a>
Cool, but an awfully small sample size. The really exciting thing will be when DNA sequencing is cheap enough that we can sequence thousands, even millions, of genomes just to see what we can find out.