Distinctive Genetic Signatures in the Libyan Jews

Unlinked autosomal microsatellites in six Jewish and two non-Jewish populations were genotyped, and the relationships among these populations were explored. Based on considerations of clustering, pairwise population differentiation, and genetic distance, we found that the Libyan Jewish group retains...

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Published inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 98; no. 3; pp. 858 - 863
Main Authors Rosenberg, Noah A., Woolf, Eilon, Pritchard, Jonathan K., Schaap, Tamar, Gefel, Dov, Shpirer, Isaac, Lavi, Uri, Bonné-Tamir, Batsheva, Hillel, Jossi, Feldman, Marcus W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States National Academy of Sciences 30.01.2001
National Acad Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences
Subjects
Anthropology
Arabs - genetics
Biological Sciences
Cluster Analysis
Ethiopia - ethnology
Genetic Markers
genetic signature
Genetics
Genotype
Humans
Iraq - ethnology
Israel
Jewish people
Jews - genetics
Libya - ethnology
Microsatellite Repeats - genetics
Morocco - ethnology
Poland - ethnology
Yemen - ethnology
Morocco
Poland
Iraq
Israel
Libya
Ethiopia
Yemen
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Summary:Unlinked autosomal microsatellites in six Jewish and two non-Jewish populations were genotyped, and the relationships among these populations were explored. Based on considerations of clustering, pairwise population differentiation, and genetic distance, we found that the Libyan Jewish group retains genetic signatures distinguishable from those of the other populations, in agreement with some historical records on the relative isolation of this community. Our methods also identified evidence of some similarity between Ethiopian and Yemenite Jews, reflecting possible migration in the Red Sea region. We suggest that high-resolution statistical methods that use individual multilocus genotypes may make it practical to distinguish related populations of extremely recent common ancestry.
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To whom reprint requests should be addressed. E-mail: noah@charles.stanford.edu.
Communicated by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
ISSN:0027-8424
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DOI:10.1073/pnas.98.3.858