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To: DanielLongo
Wow...

Still insist on claiming a whole other culture as your own.
We have discussed that before.
Tell you what, since the burden of proof is on you not me, get me any information from a NON LDS source that backs this up.

You seem to have all this at hand, so it should be easy.

Wait, I am feeling a bit giving so here:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1377656&blobtype=pdf

http://www.humpath.com/Haplogroup-X

And just a little tid bit, I can read The Lord of the Rings with great confidence and authority, still doesn’t mean there were Hobbits. Trying to sound erudite whilst promoting a mixed bag of loose “science” doesn't make you more correct, just more annoying.

170 posted on 08/17/2008 4:46:41 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Bigoted Neanderthal Evangelicals support Eric Cantor for VP. Shalom.)
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To: ejonesie22
First of all, the Church does not claim this culture as its culture. It is the culture and people of the Book of Mormon. However, I personally may claim it as part of my culture, since my great grandmother was of a HaplogroupX tribe.

Your links go to prove my point further. To wit:

Thus far, haplogroup X has not been detected in numerous Asian/ Siberian populations analyzed by high-resolution restriction analysis or CR sequencing (table 3). Three (2.9%) of 103 Mongolians harbored both the 16223T and 16278T mutations, but they also contained the 110394 DdeI and 110397 AluI markers (Kolman et al. 1996), placing them in Asian superhaplogroup M (Ballinger et al. 1992) and excluding them from haplogroup X.

If you don't understand what this publication is saying, let me educate you in the most non-"erudite" manner I can.

The markers of what appeared to be HaplogroupX found in Mongolia among the Altains were actually introduced into the genetic pool during the time of the Khan. The mitochondrial markers are from the Slavic and Eastern European Caucasus regions. They do not bear the markers of the HaplogroupX found in America and the Near East and certainly not at the same frequency. This non-matching HaplogroupX is found at a rate of about 3% among the Altains alone (no other Asian population has it), while the matching HaplogroupX with matching subset 2 (as it varies from the European HaplogroupX subset 1) is found at a frequency of 26% among the present-day inhabitants of the region encompassing Israel.

224 posted on 08/18/2008 7:05:43 AM PDT by DanielLongo
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