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Claim: Researchers Have Bigfoot DNA Researchers Claim To Have Sequenced Bigfoot DNA Sci-TechToday.com A genetic researcher is saying that Bigfoot DNA tests prove that the hairy creature really does exist. Dr. Melba S. Ketchum says she and her team sequenced three complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and concluded the species is a human hybrid -- a mosaic of human and novel non-human elements. Their findings have yet to pass peer review. A Texas veterinarian says she and fellow genetic researchers have confirmed the existence of "Bigfoot," though their findings have yet to pass peer review. Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, founder of DNA Diagnostics Inc. in the eastern Texas town of Timpson, said she and her team spent five years on their study of purported Bigfoot hair and concluded they have confirmed the existence of a hominin hybrid species, the Ketchum, who describes herself as a legendary creature commonly called "Bigfoot" veterinarian with 27 years experience in or "Sasquatch," living in North America. # $ There have been frequent-but- genetics research, including forensics, wants # $ unsubstantiated claims of Bigfoot sightings public officials and law enforcement to over the years, including some grainy film clips. recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous In a release posted on the company's people. Web site Saturday, the researchers say their "Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human DNA sequencing suggests the animal is a hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry," she said. "Government at all human relative that developed about 15,000 levels must recognize them as an indigenous years ago as a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown primate species. people and immediately protect their human and constitutional rights against those who would Ketchum said her team has sequenced three complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and see in their physical and cultural differences a 'license' to hunt, trap or kill them." [] concluded the species is a human hybrid. "Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next The ‘X’ Zone generation sequencing to obtain three whole New Year’s Eve Special nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch with samples," she said in the release. "The genome Rob McConnell sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is ! identical to modern Homo sapiens, but 9 pm Dec 31 2012 to Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin 1 am Jan 1 2013 " ! related to Homo sapiens and other primate Listen and Watch At species. www.xzoneradiotv.com "Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens." Genetic testing has already ruled out Homo neanderthalis and the Denisova hominin as contributors to Sasquatch mtDNA or nuDNA, she said. "The male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this hybrid is unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other recently discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual," Ketchum said. "Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence." She said further study is needed to "better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA."