The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to a “bottleneck” of just 350 individuals dating back to between 600 and 800 years ago, a new study concludes. NEW YORK (JTA) — Ashkenazi Jews can ...

Under these circumstances, there are more than two gene products affecting the same phenotype, and these products may have complex hierarchical relationships. Any time two different genes ...

The data breach was revealed on Friday after hackers published a database titled “ashkenazi DNA Data of Celebrities” on dark web forums. Most of the people on the list are not famous ...