Einstein Study on Genetics of North African Jews

The L.A. Times has reported on a study carried out by Dr. Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. The results of the study show that “North African Jews are more closely related to Jews from other parts of the world than they are to most of their non-Jewish neighbors in North Africa.”

I am quoted in the article, commenting on the connection between the study of history and the science of genetics: “It’s exciting to see that what we know from the history books is turning out to be real in the genetics.”

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