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Originally Posted by Plechazunga
'Ash' is Ahkenazis, I'm guessing... where are the Sephardis?
But yes, the two groups are very closely related. It's only been 80 generations or so of diaspora, though, so a high degree of homogeneity might still accomodate a certain amount of gentile-boning. You only need to look at all those Ashkenazis with red hair, others like me who look more Mediterranean but not as much as Sephardis, to see that there are other genes in the mix.
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Those filled triangles represent Ashkenazi (Ash), Near East (Nea), North African (Naf), Kurdish (Kur), Yememnite (Yem), Ethiopian (Eth) and Roman (Rom) Jewish populations.
Obviously, many of our ancestors fancied the odd European chick, but the results of the study put to bed all those theories about European Jewery originating in mass conversions of Europeans to Judaism.