According to a new study, all Ashkenazi jews are basically cousins. More specifically, Ashkenazi jews are at least 30th cousins. LiveScience reports on the international team’s new study, which found that “the central and eastern European jewish population, known as Ashkenazi jews, from whom most American jews are descended, started from a founding population of about 350 people between 600 and 800 years ago.”
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The study I'm referring to was published in the Nature Communications journal and was authored by Shai Carmi, a computer science professor at Columbia University, and more than 20 medical researchers from Yale, Columbia, Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other institutions. Here is the link to the article originally published by Times of Israel: http://www.timesofisrael.com/ashkenazi-jews-descend-from-350-people-study-finds/
According to a new study, all Ashkenazi jews are basically cousins. More specifically, Ashkenazi jews are at least 30th cousins. LiveScience reports on the international team’s new study, which found that “the central and eastern European jewish population, known as Ashkenazi jews, from whom most American jews are descended, started from a founding population of about 350 people between 600 and 800 years ago.”
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Why did you write the post? I'm being helpful and give you more information about your ancestors.
The study I'm referring to was published in the Nature Communications journal and was authored by Shai Carmi, a computer science professor at Columbia University, and more than 20 medical researchers from Yale, Columbia, Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other institutions. Here is the link to the article originally published by Times of Israel: http://www.timesofisrael.com/ashkenazi-jews-descend-from-350-people-study-finds/