Welcome to the CES Letters, where we respond to the questions and concerns posed in the CES Letter. Today Dr. Ugo A. Perego discusses DNA & the Book of Mormon Dr. Perego is a molecular biologist and population geneticist with a B.S. and M.S. in Health Sciences from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in Human Genetics and Biomolecular Sciences from the University of Pavia, Italy. Dr. Perego has over 20 years of experience in the field of genetic genealogy and population genetics. From 1999 to 2012, Dr. Perego was a Senior Researcher and Director of Operations at the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMFG) in Salt Lake City, Utah. During that time, he traveled the world collecting genealogical data and biological specimens with the objective of building the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of correlated genealogical and genetic data. In 2012, SMGF was sold to Ancestry.com and the data that was collected and produced became one of the reference databases for the autosomal DNA test offered by Ancestry. Following this, Dr. Perego worked for S&I and CES in Italy. He is now a professor in Illinois. WEBSITE: www.cesletters.org SOCIAL MEDIA: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cesletters/⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/cesletters⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@CESLetters