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To: Rameumptom
Surely you aren't trying to put one over on us, Apologist! How would a genetic connection originating 1000 years ago have been distributed to people supposed to have lived more than 2000 years ago in the Americas?...

One news story about the study comes from Nicholas Wade, "Geneticists Report Finding Central Asian Link to Levites," New York Times, September 27, 2003:

A team of geneticists studying the ancestry of Jewish communities has found an unusual genetic signature that occurs in more than half the Levites of Ashkenazi descent. The signature is thought to have originated in Central Asia, not the Near East, which is the ancestral home of Jews. The finding raises the question of how the signature became so widespread among the Levites, an ancient caste of hereditary Jewish priests. The genetic signature occurs on the male or Y chromosome and comes from a few men, or perhaps a single ancestor, who lived about 1,000 years ago, just as the Ashkenazim were beginning to be established in Europe. Ashkenazim, from whom most American Jews descend, are one of the two main branches of Jews, the other being the Sephardim, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain.

When you make an assertion regarding haplotype, you had better know what you're talking about or you make stupid fumbles like the one you offered. Go play gotcha with someone you can baffle with your bullsh!t.

499 posted on 07/09/2007 3:43:49 PM PDT by MHGinTN (You've had life support. Promote life support for those in the womb.)
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To: MHGinTN
>>In more than half the Levites of Ashkenazi descent.

Once again, the BoM people's do not claim Levirate descent so your evidence is a straw man argument.

502 posted on 07/09/2007 5:23:52 PM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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