DNA evidence supports the claim that some American Indians descended from the Old World – not Asia.
There is a strong correlation between the Ojibwa tribe of the Great Lakes area, and the Druze of Israel. This remarkable finding coincides with the True Book of Mormon Geography centered in Western New York – not Mesoamerica.
http://class.csueastbay.edu/anthropologymuseum/2006IA/DNA_PDFS/mtDNA/Eshleman2003.pdf
“To date, haplogroup X has not been unambiguously identified in Asia, raising the possibility that some Native American founders were of Caucasian ancestry. ” (“mtDNA haplogroup X: An ancient link between Europe/Western Asia and North America?” eds. M D Brown, S H Hosseini, A Torroni, H J Bandelt, J C Allen, T G Schurr, R Scozzari, F Cruciani, and D C Wallace, Am J Hum Genet. 1998 December; 63(6): 1852–1861)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1377656/pdf/9837837.pdf