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Study: Most Ashkenazi Jews From Four Women
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MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer
AP Online
01-13-2006
Dateline: NEW YORK
Some 3.5 million of today's Ashkenazi Jews _ about 40 percent of the total Ashkenazi population _ are descended from just four women, a genetic study indicates.

Those women apparently lived somewhere in Europe within the last 2,000 years, but not necessarily in the same place or even the same century, said lead author Dr. Doron Behar of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel.

He did the work with Karl Skorecki of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and others.

Each woman left a genetic signature that shows up ...

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Michael Hammer, 520-621-9828, < mhammer@u.arizona.edu '

The authors of this study are: Dr. Ostrer from NYU School of Medicine; Michael F. Hammer, University of Arizona, Tucson; Alan. J. Redd, (University of Arizona); ElizabethT. Wood (University of Arizona); Roxane Bonner (University of Arizona); Hamdi Jarjanazi (University of Arizona); Tanya. Karafet (University of Arizona), Silvana Santachiara-Benerecetti (Universityof Pavia, Italy); Ariella Oppenheim (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); Mark Jobling (University of Leicester, England); Trefor Jenkins (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) and Batsheva Bonne-Tamir (Tel Aviv University, Israel).

***EDITORS: The research article can be downloaded at the web site,
< http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/100115997 > ****
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