It might help to recall why a controversy that had been ginned up by James Callender in 1800 was back in the news. And that was because the Clinton gang was trying to use it to diminish Bill Clinton’s sleazy sexual behavior.
With this statement that you quote the study’s authors reveal that their conclusion isn’t based on definitive evidence, it’s simply their preferred explanation:
“There were approximately 25 adult male Jeffersons who carried this chromosome living in Virginia at that time, and a few of them are known to have visited Monticello. The study’s authors, however, said “the simplest and most probable” conclusion was that Thomas Jefferson had fathered Eston Hemings
“Their preferred explanation”— Exactly, and very much agenda driven by the lib-leftist opposition to the FFV and Thomas Jefferson in particular, engima that he was, and a giant intellect/polymath they cannot envision from the facts.