Newly Discovered DNA Quirk Could Reveal Mysteries of Newfoundland’s First Settlers

Posted by Jean-Yves on Apr 19, 2019
 

A Newfoundland genealogist has stumbled onto a rare and mysterious DNA quirk that he says could tell the untold story of the island’s first European settlers.

David Pike, a mathematics professor and genealogist, said the rare mitochondrial DNA profile caught his attention over a decade ago when it began popping up frequently in test results for a Newfoundland and Labrador genealogy project. The profile — called H5a5, plus another unnamed mutation — is likely European in origin. It has appeared in about 10 per cent of the 264 people across the province who have supplied mitochondrial DNA for the online project.

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