DNAPrint genomics, Inc. (OTC BB: DNAG) today announced that senior scientists from its Trace Genetics laboratory in Richmond, Calif., have completed analysis and reports on 800-year-old American Indian tooth samples from Mink Island, Alaska, for the National Park Service.
"Two of the samples had an identical DNA sequence, which suggests that the individuals could be siblings," said Dr. Ripan Malhi, Senior Research Director of Trace Genetics. "This is a sequence commonly found in many individuals from the Arctic and Subarctic, including the Chukchi, Siberian Inuits, Aleuts and Athapaskan groups."
Dr. Malhi noted that the sequence is also found in individuals of Apache and Nahua ancestry, suggesting that this lineage may have once been widely geographically dispersed throughout North America but is now restricted to the Arctic/Subarctic and Southwest/Mesoamerica, possibly as a result of European contact.
It's a press release, not a news story, but it seems interesting.