Common genetic threads link thousands of years of Jewish ancestry

Friday, June 4, 2010 - 00:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Using sophisticated genomic analysis, scientists have probed the ancestry of several Jewish and non-Jewish populations and better defined the relatedness of contemporary Jewish people. The research may shed light on the question, first raised more than a century ago, of whether Jews are a race, a religious group or something else.

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