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Startling new research suggests all Jews – even Ashkenazic Jews – have Turkish-Greek roots originating in the Persian Empire. Whether Ashkenazic (European) or Sephardic (Spanish or Middle Eastern), most Jews in fact have genetic links stemming back from Turkey, according to a controversial study released Tuesday. Dr. Eran Elhaik of …

Founder mutations in BRCA1/2 genes have been detected in several Jewish communities in Israel, including in Ashkenazi Jews and Jews who immigrated to Israel from Iraq, Yemen, Iran and Afghanistan. We analyzed DNA samples of patients of Sephardic origin (descendents of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula) with breast cancer (BC) and/or ovarian …

Las comunidades judías en Europa y el Medio Oriente comparten muchos genes heredados de la población judía ancestral que vivió en el Medio Oriente hace unos 3.000 años, a pesar de que cada comunidad también lleva genes de otras fuentes , por lo general el país en el que vive. …

Jewish communities in Europe and the Middle East share many genes inherited from the ancestral Jewish population that lived in the Middle East some 3,000 years ago, even though each community also carries genes from other sources — usually the country in which it lives. That is the conclusion of …

Cuando las mujeres hispanas de Colorado’s Valle de San Luis mostraron tener una alta frecuencia del gen del cáncer de mama asquenazí, algunos expertos genéticos comenzaron a preguntarse el porqué. Investigaciones posteriores mostraron que las mujeres en cuestión eran probablemente descendientes de conversos que huyeron de la Inquisición, y que …

When Hispanic women in Colorado?s San Luis Valley were shown to carry a high frequency of the Ashkenazic breast-cancer gene, some genetic experts began to wonder. Subsequent investigations showed that the women in question were likely the descendents of conversos fleeing the Inquisition, who settled in the region late in …

By Felice  L Bedford / University of Arizona ——————————————————————————————— We found that a number of people living in parts of Mexico can be traced to a Sephardic woman. The woman appears to have come from Spain, most likely in the early 1600s at the founding of Mexican communities. She undoubtedly would have …