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"The mitochondrial DNA backed up the legendary origin of this close-knit religious group, believed to number 1 million or fewer. For instance, Skorecki's team discovered an unusually high frequency of a haplogroup, or a distinct collection of genetic markers, called haplogroup X. Haplogroup X is rare but is found around the world among diverse groups..."

Often we read about the discovery of 'Europen DNA' in the US. Usually it is this mtDNA Haplogroup 'X" found in some American Indians.
25% of the Ojibwe tribe in the Northeastern US have mtDNA 'X'...no-one is sure how it got 'here.'

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Coming Into America (Tracing The Genes)

MitochondrialDNA (mtDNA) haplogroup testing led to the surprising hypothesis that some of the first Americans came from Europe thousands of years ago.