DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[mingwan0]

Robert, that is the real crux of the issue - are the AIMs mentioned by various researchers the same AIMs that we have filed patent on, and is the researcher's awareness of them (and the term "ancestry informative markers") through the company or just through Mark Shriver. Some people are clearly trying to find their own AIMs (whether they refer to them as such or use another term). Others seem to be using a subset of the AIMs used by DNAP (you see various total number of AIMs mentioned in different pieces of research). Some people might be using ADMIXMAP (our platform, not LSHTM's program with the same name). We could not tell from the literature that work with Moffitt was on-going until it was publicly announced. Overall, we do not know the relative numbers of researchers involved. I agree with you though it is encouraging to see the approach and the terminology being increasingly utilized by a number of different research groups, hopefully resulting in mainstream technology which we just happen to hold the patent on.