Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 9

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Response to claims made in "Chapter 9: The Outcasts of Israel"

Chapter 6

A FAIR Analysis of: Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church A work by author: Simon G. Southerton

Chapter 10

Response to claim: 120 - We should expect the common culture, history and ancestry to be revealed in the genes of the lost 10 tribes and those of the kingdom of Judah if they are actually related

Claim
We should expect the common culture, history and ancestry to be revealed in the genes of the lost 10 tribes and those of the kingdom of Judah if they are actually related.

Author's source(s)

• No source given.

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• Book of Mormon/DNA evidence

Response to claim: 128-129==

Claim

• The Lemba can be genetically tied to the line of Aaron.

Author's source(s)

• Webber Ndoro, "Great Zimbabwe," Scientific American, Nov. 1997, 62-67.
• Tudor Parfitt, Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel, 1997.
• Thomas, et al., "Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba 'Black Jews of Southern Africa'," American Journal of Human Genetics 66:674-86 (2000).
• Ezra 2꞉35

Response
 FAIR WIKI EDITORS: Check sources

Fact checking results: The author has stated erroneous information or misinterpreted their sources

This is irrelevant for a Book of Mormon context. Only 2% of modern Jews can be identified by genetic testing.

• Lemba and Cohen modal haplotype

Response to claim: 129==

Claim

• In Mesoamerica, there is no genetic support for European lineages.

Author's source(s)

• No source given.

Response
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Fact checking results: The author has stated erroneous information or misinterpreted their sources

Most Church experts do not expect to find such genetic support.

Book of Mormon/DNA evidence