"According to The Jewish Chronicle, Geneticist and Cherokee descendant Donald Yates, genetically tested a group of 67 Cherokee Indians and have found a new gene among one-quarter of them – a gene largely found in the Middle East. In a surprising study recorded in a 2013 National Geographic article, nearly one-third of the Native American genes tested come from the Middle East and Europe, rather than East Asia, as originally assumed."

https://aish.com/native-americans-and-the-jews/