Science news articles about 'ashkenazi jews'

... all of us still breathing braniacs, the title only applies to those of us who are also medieval Ashkenazi Jews, according to the authors of the 2006 paper "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence". ...

Ashkenazi Jews have a higher rate of some deadly genetic diseases -- and of high IQs. Scientists Gregory Cochran ... him for several years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases?

... identified in a well-established group of almost 500 Ashkenazi Jews, aged 95 to 112, and their families. Last year, he reported that some of the oldest in this group have mutations in ...

... gene. The finding, part of a larger examination of families of various ancestries – Europeans, Ashkenazi Jews, Indians and East Asians – is the first significant genetic evidence of a role of genes ...

... PGD is used alongside assisted reproduction technologies to ensure couples that may be carriers of genetic disease (e.g. Ashkenazi Jews who have a high incidence of Tay-Sachs among their ...

... Indians is different from the rest of the world." Founder events in other groups, such as Finns and Ashkenazi Jews, are well known to increase the incidence of recessive genetic diseases, and the new ...

... ,691 patients with Parkinson's disease, including 780 Ashkenazi Jews, a population in which a particular type of Gaucher ... GBA gene in 1,642 non-Ashkenazi patients with Parkinson's disease and 609 non- ...

... . In investigating the role of telomeres in aging, the Einstein researchers studied Ashkenazi Jews because they are a homogeneous population that was already well studied genetically. Three groups ...