What types of DNA markers might we reasonably expect to find from a population with the background of Lehi's group? The answer to this question can be quite complex, so we will begin from the most obvious.

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Now it can be said with confidence that modern North American Native peoples do in fact share a common lineage with Jewish populations stemming from the Mediterranean area of the Old World. This fact is inescapable according to mtDNA findings, and strongly supportive of the claims of the Book of Mormon. The significance of the correlations between multiple Jewish and non-Jewish populations in the Levant or Holy Land region with Native populations in North America through mtDNA backed research cannot be mistaken by those with an understanding of the Book of Mormon history.