The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

Doron M. Behar (), Bayazit Yunusbayev, Mait Metspalu, Ene Metspalu, Saharon Rosset, Jüri Parik, Siiri Rootsi, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Ildus Kutuev, Guennady Yudkovsky, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Oleg Balanovsky, Ornella Semino, Luisa Pereira, David Comas, David Gurwitz, Batsheva Bonne-Tamir, Tudor Parfitt, Michael F. Hammer, Karl Skorecki () and Richard Villems ()
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Doron M. Behar: Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus
Bayazit Yunusbayev: University of Tartu
Mait Metspalu: University of Tartu
Ene Metspalu: University of Tartu
Saharon Rosset: School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Jüri Parik: University of Tartu
Siiri Rootsi: University of Tartu
Gyaneshwer Chaubey: University of Tartu
Ildus Kutuev: University of Tartu
Guennady Yudkovsky: Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus
Elza K. Khusnutdinova: Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
Oleg Balanovsky: Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
Ornella Semino: Università di Pavia
Luisa Pereira: Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP)
David Comas: Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), CEXS-UPF-PRBB and CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública
David Gurwitz: Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Batsheva Bonne-Tamir: Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Tudor Parfitt: Faculty of Languages and Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Michael F. Hammer: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Karl Skorecki: Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus
Richard Villems: University of Tartu

Nature, 2010, vol. 466, issue 7303, 238-242

Abstract: The Jewish line A comparison of genomic data from 14 Jewish communities across the world with data from 69 non-Jewish populations reveals a close relationship between most of today's Jews and non-Jewish populations from the Levant. This fits in with the idea that most contemporary Jews are descended from ancient Hebrew and Israelite residents of the Levant. By contrast, the Ethiopian and Indian Jewish communities cluster with neighbouring non-Jewish populations in Ethiopia and western India, respectively. This may be partly because a greater degree of genetic, religious and cultural crossover took place when the Jewish communities in these areas became established.

Date: 2010
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