Posted on 07/15/2015 2:42:04 PM PDT by Pharmboy
‘Bottleneck’ dates back 600 to 800 years, genome analysis shows; researcher says among population ‘everyone is a 30th cousin.
Illustrative photo of Ashkenazi Jews, taken from Nurit Ben Sheetri's 'The Redheads' exhibit at Dizengoff Center (courtesy Nurit Ben Sheetrit)
A new study concludes that all Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to a “bottleneck” of just 350 individuals, dating back to between 600 and 800 years ago.
The study, published in the Nature Communications journal Tuesday, was authored by Shai Carmi, a computer science professor at Columbia University, and more than 20 medical researchers from Yale, Columbia, Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other institutions.
Researchers analyzed the genomes of 128 Ashkenazi Jews and compared them to those of non-Jewish Europeans in order to determine which genetic markers are unique to Ashkenazi Jews. They found that the Ashkenazi Jews’ genetic similarities were so acute that one of the study’s researchers, Columbia professor Itsik Pe’er, told the Live Science website that among Ashkenazi Jews, “everyone is a 30th cousin.”
The findings will enable researchers to catalog nearly all of the genetic variations from the founding population, the study’s authors said. Such thorough genetic cataloging could help clinicians interpret individual genetic mutations, improve disease mapping and provide insight into the histories of Middle Eastern and European populations, the study said.
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Yes, it’s a pretty recent word in English, but there are similar terms in other European languages that are older, and an approximately equivalent term (yehudi) that appears in the Biblical texts.
Oh, right. I forget sometimes. ;)
You seem to know your stuff on this; doesn’t “The Children of Israel (Jacob)” get the job done?
Ever read The Merchant of Venice? Lots of Jew puns.
...a "bottleneck" of just 350 individuals, dating back to between 600 and 800 years ago...Researchers analyzed the genomes of 128 Ashkenazi Jews...128 in the study? Gosh, what a surprising result. Also, the real bottleneck was in the 20th century, The Holocaust. One of the SS leaders said that Polish Jewry was the "genetic powerhouse" of European Jewry, and getting rid of it was the priority.
Yes, the word “Jew” was edited in, just like in the present 1769 King James revision we use today.
Beyond the Mountains of Darkness
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/khazars.htm
Gozan
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/gozan.htm
Cities of the Medes
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/citmedes.htm
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Wow, 350 people. Not long ago we had several threads like this.
'Four Mothers' For Europe's Jews - Free Republic
Everyone from 350 people (radical muslims would disagree on that characterization), but half of them from four women. After the Ashkenazi ban on polygamy. Everyone must have been very busy.
Alibabba’s Jack Ma is also a redhead...
...nah, just kidding, his head was the model for the Sponge Bob Squarepants character
What about the First Holocaust starting at the Great Revolt through Bar Kokhba’s? That had to end whole bloodlines either by massacre or female slavery.
So they're red headed hippies?
Jewish persecution during "the Crusades" was said to have begun around 1096 in and about the Rhineland, were these not Ashkenazis then or what am I missing?
That’s interesting, thanks.
I read somewhere that every Jew now living, is a descendant of Judah, the son of Jacob (in Genesis). Is that true?
I read somewhere that every Jew now living, is a descendant of Judah, the son of Jacob (in Genesis). Is that true?
so, which were the china red heads
celt? jew?
Not sure what you mean.
Jews are (mostly) endogamous, so there is an almost certainty that any identifiable Jew by birth today would carry DNA from Judah, and back to Abraham too.
If you mean only from the tribe of Judah, no.
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