Ugo A. Perego

Ugo A. Perego is a population geneticist whose main focuses of study have been the origins of Native Americans and the DNA of Joseph Smith, among others. Perego is also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He has received a BSc and MSc in health sciences from Brigham Young University and a PhD in genetics and biomolecular sciences from the University of Pavia under the mentorship of . Perego has lectured extensively internationally, authoring and co-authoring numerous articles on the use of DNA to research ancient population migrations, genealogies, and history, including Mormon history .
For twelve years, Perego was a senior researcher at the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation and a scientific consultant for GeneTree, both located in Salt Lake City, Utah. For nearly ten years, he was the director of the Rome Italy Institute of Religion and an S&I Coordinator in Central Italy and Malta for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is currently a Professor of Biology for the Southeastern Community College in Iowa and a visiting scientist at Professor Alessandro Achilli’s Laboratory of Population Genetics at the University of Pavia in Italy.