A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages
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A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages
The origins of Ashkenazi Jews remain highly controversial. Like Judaism, mitochondrial DNA is passed along the maternal line. Its variation in the Ashkenazim is highly distinctive, with four major and numerous minor founders. However, due to their rarity in the general population, these founders have been difficult to trace to a source. Here we show that all four major founders, ~40% of Ashkena...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3543