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Nah the new wave of ancient DNA analysis since 2010 has been a game changer. Especially with euroasian history. It showed us how populations migrated and how an
by eddiewithzato 2y ago
Nah the new wave of ancient DNA analysis since 2010 has been a game changer. Especially with euroasian history. It showed us how populations migrated and how and when admixture formed. Including identifying the yamnaya admixture in modern populations
If they actually have Columbus’s DNA intact with a good SNP resolution, it will be trivial to find out what % of jewish he is in his autosomal DNA. They can and should release it publicly as part of their paper as well. So people can confirm their hypothesis
- Tor3 2y ago.. except that there isn't really a thing such as Jewish DNA. Other than that, yes we're mostly all a mixture of people travelling and migrating and settling down and moving, and they came from all over over the centuries and millennia.
- eddiewithzato 2y agoY-DNA clades can and are associated with certain ethnic groups. Then once you confirm that, you simply need to model their autosomal DNA. And viola, you can very reliably determine if someone is Jewish, Greek, Italian, etc
- Tor3 2y agoThere's no way it's as easy and clear-cut as that. Nothing I've seen says it is. Citation needed.