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Is there any DNA analysis of Sasquatch that Melba Ketchum submitted?
Ketchum's team did produce a formal genomic study — the most extensive DNA analysis ever claimed for Sasquatch — sequencing 20 complete mitochondrial genomes and 3 whole nuclear genomes from 111 alleged samples collected across North America. The core finding was not 'unknown primate' but a specific hybrid model: unknown hominin males crossed with female Homo sapiens, with mitochondrial lineages that are unambiguously modern human. The study was rejected by every mainstream journal it was submitted to before Ketchum acquired and published in her own peer-review outlet, DeNovo, which critics used to dismiss the work entirely — though the underlying genomic data files were released publicly and remain available for independent analysis.
Evidence
- Dr. Melba Ketchum, a 27-year forensic genetics veteran who participated in mapping the equine genome, launched the Sasquatch Genome Project after beginning sample testing around 2007-2008.
- The study's central claim, as stated in Ketchum's own press release, is that Sasquatch nuclear DNA presents as 'a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence,' while mitochondrial DNA clusters consistently with modern Homo sapiens.
- Between 2011 and 2012, the paper was submitted to journals spanning genetics, zoology, and anthropology.
- The Erickson Project — Adrian Erickson's parallel effort to film living Sasquatch — was presented alongside the genomic data at the October 2013 press conference, with organizers arguing that visual and genetic evidence together constituted a convergent evidentiary case.
- Her team of 11 authors analyzed 111 submitted specimens — hair, blood, tissue, and saliva — using next-generation sequencing and a 2.5 million SNP chip analysis run in collaboration with the University of Southern California.