ROFL!!!!
Remarkable, not a single scientific journal cited within all this balderdash and dead electrons the post created.
Primer on DNA and the origions of the Amerindians:
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
Other important studies include:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18951391
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9101
And regarding the nepharious Haplogen X:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180497/
Folks, the bottom line is smith and mormonism for well over a century (even to present day) have claimed that the Amerindians of the new world were descended from lehi, et al.
DNA studies are just another nail in the coffin for the bom and the cult of mormonism. Add this to the other evidenc -
Linguistic studies show no evidence of hebraic or egyptian sources for any Amerindian language.
Archaeology shows no evidence PERIOD of an advanced hebraic/egyptian/middle eastern culture practicing mosaic worship with advanced metallurgical skills, horses, old world crops, chairiots, etc. All archaeological evidence to date shows cultures quite different.
Mormon apologists have developed over two dozen different theories to identify the bom lands. These range from the whole hemisphere, central americal, baja california, malaysian pennesula and even africa.
One last point. Mormon apologists fall further behind the DNA evidences against the bom. Using what is called “admixture mapping,” researchers observe thousands of variant SNPs (pronounced “snips” for single nucleotide polymorphisms) revealing the subtlest influences on an individual’s genetic makeup. “snips” don’t die out as MtDNA might in people groups - is it more broadly passed.
So grab your barf bag for the spin that FAIR (and PD) is putting out for consumption.
Don’t ya just love it when these folks try to use science to prove imaginary peoples once inhabited vast cities from coast to caost of North America. They got here by wooden submarines don’tchaknow, with poop hatches in the underside of the subs. Spaulding was a fiarly well educated minister, but he had zero scientific depth to him so his novel had several glaring errors ... which Joe Smith dutifully repeated with his BofM since he was neither an educated minister nor a scientist of the early eighteen hundreds.