Are Georgian Jews converts?

[SUPREEEEEME]

How would you estimate the Levantine ancestry in Ashkenazim and Sephardim?

Target: Sephardic_Jew
Distance: 1.2139% / 0.01213877
49.4 Levant_Beirut_IAIII
31.6 HRV_IA
11.0 Canary_Islands_Guanche
8.0 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_IA

Target: Ashkenazi_Poland
Distance: 0.7560% / 0.00756040
45.0 Levant_Beirut_IAIII
29.4 HRV_IA
8.8 DEU_MA_Baiuvaric
6.0 Canary_Islands_Guanche
5.0 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_IA
4.4 Baltic_LTU_Late_Antiquity_low_res
1.4 CHN_Chuanyun_Historic

[Leto]

Target: Sephardic_Jew
Distance: 1.2139% / 0.01213877
49.4 Levant_Beirut_IAIII
31.6 HRV_IA
11.0 Canary_Islands_Guanche
8.0 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_IA

Target: Ashkenazi_Poland
Distance: 0.7560% / 0.00756040
45.0 Levant_Beirut_IAIII
29.4 HRV_IA
8.8 DEU_MA_Baiuvaric
6.0 Canary_Islands_Guanche
5.0 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_IA
4.4 Baltic_LTU_Late_Antiquity_low_res
1.4 CHN_Chuanyun_Historic

Interesting. What is HRV?

[Pine]

Davidski's "gold standard"

Target: Assyrian
Distance: 2.0155% / 0.02015535
43.6 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Kaps
22.8 Levant_PPNB
14.8 IRN_Ganj_Dareh_N
13.8 TUR_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N
4.8 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara
0.2 Han


Target: Georgian_Jew
Distance: 1.9637% / 0.01963679
40.4 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Kaps
24.6 Levant_PPNB
13.8 IRN_Ganj_Dareh_N
13.4 TUR_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N
7.2 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara
0.6 Han

Indeed extremely similar.

Partly coincidental, since Georgian Jews are largely Babylonian Jews shifted by some Caucasian and some Western Jewish (likely Byzantine Jewish).

[happycow]

Partly coincidental, since Georgian Jews are largely Babylonian Jews shifted by some Caucasian and some Western Jewish (likely Byzantine Jewish).

Pine! Where have you been??

[SUPREEEEEME]

Interesting. What is HRV?

Effectively a mainland Greek/Balkan source.