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“While F.A.R.M.S. researchers are careful to note the importance of cultural influences on the construction of categories, they express confidence in an Israelite genetic presence in Central America and perhaps as far away as Arizona to the north and Colombia to the south. As we have seen, genetic studies of indigenous peoples throughout North, Central, and South America have failed to link Native Americans from these locations to ancient Hebrews.”

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Thomas Murphy, American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 15 May 2002), 62.