http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/j ... 54.web.pdf
And this:
http://www.tracegenetics.com/Malhi%20an ... 202002.pdf
And this:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/j ... .text.html
And you may (or you may not) be interested in Virginia Morrels article in Science (Science 24 April 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5363, p. 520) available here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/s ... 0/5363/520
Here is an excerpt:
Anthropologists have long assumed that the first Americans, who crossed into North America by way of the Bering Strait, were originally of Asian stock. But recently they have been puzzled by surprising features on a handful of ancient American skeletons, including the controversial one known as Kennewick Man--features that resemble those of Europeans rather than Asians (Science, 10 April 1998, p. 190). Now a new genetic study may link Native Americans and people of Europe and the Middle East, offering tantalizing support to a controversial theory that a band of people who originally lived in Europe or Asia Minor were among the continent's first settlers.
The new data, from a genetic marker appropriately called Lineage X, suggest a "definite--if ancient--link between Eurasians and Native Americans," says Theodore Schurr, a molecular anthropologist from Emory University in Atlanta, who presented the findings earlier this month at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Salt Lake City....
The team, led by Emory researchers Michael Brown and Douglas Wallace, and including Antonio Torroni from the University of Rome and Hans-Jurgen Bandelt from the University of Hamburg in Germany, was searching for the source population of a puzzling marker known as X. This marker is found at low frequencies throughout modern Native Americans and has also turned up in the remains of ancient Americans. Identified as a unique suite of genetic variations, X is found on the DNA in the cellular organelle called the mitochondrion, which is inherited only from the mother.
Researchers had already identified four common genetic variants, called haplogroups A, B, C, and D, in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of living Native Americans (Science, 4 October 1996, p. 31). These haplogroups turned up in various Asian populations, lending genetic support for the leading theory that Native Americans descended primarily from these peoples. But researchers also found a handful of other less common variants, one of which was later identified as X.
Haplogroup X was different. It was spotted by Torroni in a small number of European populations. So the Emory group set out to explore the marker's source. They analyzed blood samples from Native American, European, and Asian populations and reviewed published studies. "We fully expected to find it in Asia," like the other four Native American markers, says Brown.
To their surprise, however, haplogroup X was only confirmed in the genes of a smattering of living people in Europe and Asia Minor, including Italians, Finns, and certain Israelis. The team's review of published mtDNA sequences suggests that it may also be in Turks, Bulgarians, and Spaniards. But Brown's search has yet to find haplogroup X in any Asian population. "It's not in Tibet, Mongolia, Southeast Asia, or Northeast Asia," Schurr told the meeting. "The only time you pick it up is when you move west into Eurasia
You seem also to have missed this while concentrating on that last bowl...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent. ... wus19.html
And this:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n37813gr642p75g4/
And this:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/j ... 90321.html
And:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/j ... 72.web.pdf (notice the relative frequency of haplotype 4 here).
The point of all this is not that it proves the Book of Mormon true. It does do two things, however. It shows that the Book of Mormon's claims are perfectly plausible, and that mtDNA studies are in their infancy regarding the full story of Amerindian origins. Dude, Seth, Tom Murphy, or anyone else are way over their heads claiming the demise of the Book of Mormon based upon this kind of evidence.