Near Eastern origin of R1a in Ashkenazi Levites

[evon]

http://dienekes.blogspot.no/2013/12/near-eastern-origin-of-r1a-in-ashkenazi.html


This paper is a nice cautionary tale. R1a is very common in eastern Europe and less so in the Near East. Ashkenazi Jews lived in Eastern Europe, and one group of them (Levites) had high frequency of R1a than the rest. It seemed that an eastern European patrilineage had inserted itself into the Ashkenazi Levite gene pool.

;) enjoy..

[MfA_]

relevant
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?106567-Phylogenetic-applications-of-Y-DNA-and-the-Near-Eastern-origin-of-Ashkenazi-Levites
http://kurdishdna.blogspot.com/2013/12/ashkenazi-levite-jews-and-their-iranian.html