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| Abraham's Children in the Genome Era |
| 2010-06-04 |
| The important study, called “Abraham's Children in the Genome Era: Major Jewish Diaspora Populations Comprise Distinct Genetic Clusters with Shared Middle Eastern Ancestry,' was conducted by Dr. Gil Atzmon and Prof. Edward Burns at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Prof. Harry Ostrer of New York University's School of Medicine. It also included Prof. Eitan Friedman, head of oncogenetics at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, and others. They performed a genome-wide analysis of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews; Italian, Greek and Turkish Sephardi Jews; and Iranian, Iraqi and Syrian Jews. A total of 237 participants from diverse Jewish communities in the metropolitan New York region, Seattle, Israel, Athens and Rome underwent blood tests. The 237 Jews were included only if all four grandparents came from the same Jewish community. The results were compared with a genetic analysis of 418 people from non-Jewish groups around the world. Jews from the different regions of the world were found to share many genetic traits that are distinct from other groups and that date back to ancient times. |
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| Posted by: Jefferson 2010-06-04 15:49 |