Until now, it had been widely assumed by geneticists that the Ashkenazi communities of Northern and Central Europe were founded by men who came from the Middle East, perhaps as traders, and by the women from each local population whom they took as wives and converted to Judaism.
But the new study, published online this week in The American Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that the men and their wives migrated to Europe together.
also on this week in ashkenazi genetics.........
On a related tangent, I'm in the middle of "The Ancestor's Tale" right now. At times he cuts the science into such tiny bite-sized pieces that it is slow and annoying. I don't know enough about the subject to know how in touch he is with current thinking on the subject.
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- bill 1-14-2006 10:29 pm
also on this week in ashkenazi genetics.........
- dave 1-14-2006 11:15 pm [add a comment]
On a related tangent, I'm in the middle of "The Ancestor's Tale" right now. At times he cuts the science into such tiny bite-sized pieces that it is slow and annoying. I don't know enough about the subject to know how in touch he is with current thinking on the subject.
- mark 1-15-2006 3:44 am [add a comment]