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Old 9th May 2008, 13:39   #139 (permalink)
Plechazunga
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Originally Posted by holyland red View Post
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.
I see. So there's no Arab clusters on the diagram? And what about the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardim?

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Originally Posted by spinoza View Post

EDIT - except for Ethiopian jews, who clearly boned away mightily
I think the Falashas are a completely different ethnic stock, and that's why they're so far away in genetic space, not cos of boning.

Text message for you btw Spin
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