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MormonTimes.com: Hebrew DNA found in South America?

Published: Monday, May 12, 2008 12:06 a.m. MDT
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Was Hebrew DNA recently found in American Indian populations in South America? According to Scott R. Woodward, executive director of Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a DNA marker, called the "Cohen modal haplotype," sometimes associated with Hebrew people, has been found in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.

But it probably has nothing to do with the Book of Mormon — at least not directly.

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