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Geneticists at Sheba Medical Center and New York University have launched the world's first comprehensive gene-mapping project of the Jewish people, in an effort to trace their wanderings to and from Israel and in the Diaspora over the millennia.
The research may also be used in the future to connect specific genes to certain "Jewish diseases" by providing data on the normal gene to serve as a control group.
Sheba, NYU researchers to draw genetic map of wandering Jew
Seeded on Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:36 AM EDT
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Volunteers whose parents and grandparents have the same ethnic origins - including Yemenites, Iraqis, Moroccans, Libyans, Ethiopians, Indians, Georgians, Bnei Menashe, Bucharans and others regarded as close to the Jews, such as Karaites - are being invited to give blood samples and fill out a short questionnaire. So far, 120 samples have been collected, but about 180 more are needed.
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#1 - Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:37 AM EDTThank you, kpr for commenting here. Always happy to hear from you.
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This is neat research. It will probably give fascinating results, I look forward to the publication of the results.
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#2 - Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:56 AM EDTI wonder if they will be able to isolate and identify the Jewish Mother or Yiddish Mama genes? LoL.
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#3 - Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:41 AM EDTI'm not Jewish, but this is of great interest to me as I am considering taking a DNA test to trace my heritage. Due to slavery and adoptions, much of my ancestry is unknown. I would love to know the findings of this project. I would think this would also be of great interest to the Christian community as well. Good seed.
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