DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

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"Mr. Gabriel: Dr. Tony Frudakis founded the company in 1999. Tony is a geneticist who has worked in the field all his life, and it was while working for another company that he had some different ideas about how genetics could be applied, especially in the pharmaceutical area. So he decided to start his own company. I came on in 2003 with the goal of staying focused on Tony's vision. At the time Tony formed the company, the pharmaceutical industry was trying to determine how genetics could be applied in developing drugs. A lot of companies were gathering information on what they consider to be isolated populations that were relatively 'pure.' Tony sensed that there was a problem with this. The so-called 'pure' populations, based on his analysis, showed admixtures of populations that had different origins, and came from different regions of the world."

Ann