40% of Ashkenazim are descendants of four ancient mothers. This is according to a new genetic study, which holds that these four women are part of a small group of people, from which the Ashkenazi community was born. According to the researchers, these four women apparently lived in Europe during the last 2,000 years, but not necessarily in the same place and perhaps not in the same century. Each of the women passed on her own unique DNA segment to her daughters and sons. The descendants multiplied and spread throughout the world, and today the same DNA segment is found in 3.5 million Ashkenazim, which is about 40% of the community.
The DNA segment of the four women also appears in people from Egypt, the Saudi West. The research was done as part of Doron Behar's doctorate from the Technion Faculty of Medicine, and according to Behar, the meaning of the finding is that the origin of the four women - and therefore of a significant part of the Ashkenazi Jews - is, most likely, in the Middle East. The segment was also found in non-Ashkenazi Jews, but with a lower frequency, and the researchers believe that "this provides evidence that the Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jews share a common maternal origin."
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By the way, the Jews of course raped a lot of European women, or in engineered words "took from them as little as possible" and therefore the "Jewish" genes are expressed more in men and less in "Jewish" women.
Who wants to be of Middle Eastern descent anyway?
I wish they would find out that I am not of Middle Eastern/Jewish origin.
For my part, they will deny me Israeli citizenship (in their stupidity) provided they prove that I have no connection to Jewish/Arab genetics.
Who cares about that 40%
It is much more interesting to know about the origin of the "remaining" 60% of the Ashkenazim.
We all know there are "Ashkenazim" who are actually Mizrahi, but bring a study on the other 60%, much more interesting.
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