New Askhenazi Jewish Study

[Opie]

https://i.postimg.cc/QKBvBVp7/IMG-4567.jpg

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59936-3

[Nurzat]

so it points to a sort of a massive conversion to Judaism of people in Italy at some point - late antiquity, early middle ages. but they all also have Levantine genes so some Levantine actual Jewish group was there involved as well

[Dardanos]

A lot of Jewish groups are converts, Yemeni, Ethiopian, Indian and to lesser degree Iraqi and Iranian jews
The funniest are the Ethiopian and Yemeni Jews who are literally 0-5% Judean

[Dušan]

https://i.postimg.cc/QKBvBVp7/IMG-4567.jpg

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59936-3

Cca 25% Southwest Asian ancestry is not that small, but neither dominant.
It is not negligible, for sure.

[Shrubby]

The sample analyzed is only 152 individuals. It is not made clear if they are just Eastern Ashkenazim or also some Western AJ as well. That is important to know.

[majevica]

And Italian already contains MENA dna