“[P]erhaps it can be anticipated that before long some scholar will examine the DNA of early inhabitants of eastern Siberia and the DNA of early American Indians for confirmation of their relationship. All that would be left would be for an interested Mormon to compare the two findings to the DNA of Israelites who lived about 600 BCE.”

Brigham D. Madsen, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, “Reflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History” (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. Fall 1997), 91.