EVIDENCE OF ATLANTIS

Table 2. Survey of Asian mtDNAs for the Presence of Haplogroup X

Population Total Tested Number with
Haplogroup X

Buryats 105 0
Tuvinians 111 0
Koryaks 35 0
Evens 65 0
Yakuts 62 0
Khakassians 54 0
Shors 42 0
Sojots 34 0
Altaians 202 7
Evenks 80 0
Total:
790
7

This is less than 0.4% of all the Asians tested. All seven came from the remote central Asian area known as Altai at the crossroads of Mongolia, China, Russia and Kazakhstan. It is located at 50N 85E which is practically halfway around the world from the Great Lakes area where almost all the Indians with haplogroup X were found. Nevertheless, the authors conclude that,

the candidate source population for American Indian mtDNA haplotypes therefore may include the populations originating in the regions to the southwest and southeast of Lake Baikal, including the Altai Mountain region [even though]… the X mtDNAs that we detected in the Altaian sample do not bear the 16213A and 200G variants that are characteristic of most American Indian haplogroup X mtDNAs.17

Apparently, this “candidate source” from tiny Altai, traveled across Siberia, over the Bering Strait, through Alaska, Canada and northwest America, crossed the Rocky Mountains and all the Great Plains and settled in the Great Lakes area without mixing with any other populations along the way because no one from Altai east to the Great Lakes shows haplogroup X. Yet this migration is supposed to have taken place and is a viable conclusion from the data!

Perhaps there is a more viable genetic source for the American Indian that didn't have to travel quite so far from home to reach America? In a study published in Tissue Antigens in October 1999 I found the following abstract: