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In the medieval period, Ashkenazim were the most well-traveled people in the world. It was hardly uncommon for Jewish couples to be comprised of a man and a woman who were born in communities located hundreds of miles away from one another at a time when most Christian Europeans married people who were born in a 20 mile radius of their own birthplace.
I'm not sure why this is being represented as an unexpected find.
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Thanks decimon....genetically more diverse than people of European descent, despite previous assumptions that Ashkenazi Jews have been an isolated population. In addition, analyses of disease-related genes of higher prevalence in the Ashkenazi Jewish population indicate that only a minority of traits show signs of positive selection, suggesting that most have arisen through random genetic drift... The researchers were able to estimate that between 35 and 55 percent of the modern Ashkenazi genome comes from European descent... The two strongest differences between the Ashkenazi and European populations were on chromosome 2 and 12.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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Eighty percent of the Jewish immigrants to the US are the Ashkenazi Jews.
Millions Of Jews Traced To Four Women
Study identifies genetic signatures for 3.5 million
"NEW YORK — About 3.5 million of today’s Ashkenazi Jews — 40 percent of the total Ashkenazi population — are descended from just four women, a genetic study indicates."
"Those women apparently lived somewhere in Europe within the last 2,000 years, but not necessarily in the same place or even the same century, said lead author Dr. Doron Behar of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel."
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I wonder if Emory University got Saudi funding for this study?
The Muslims/Arabs are keen on proving the land of Israel, which they call by its Roman name, Palestine, is Arab—not Jewish.
“Proving” the Jews are European rather than Middle Eastern has been a pet project of them.
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I understood “of,” “and,” and “the.”
So can the Federation and synagogues lay off slamming us for intermarrying, as long as we raise ‘em up fully Jewish?? It’s not like the old timers weren’t always doing the same darn thing!
Also, interesting to see the proof that Jews are less likely to be able to tolerate milk, and less likely to have problems with alcohol. We knew it but now we know why.
