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Research unearths Jewish roots in Colorado Indians
ynet news ^ | 06.01.12 | Anon

Posted on 10/09/2012 7:25:35 PM PDT by Pharmboy

Native American Indians from western United States found to have genetic mutation typical of Ashkenazi Jews; connection may date back to time of Christopher Columbus

A population of Native American Indians from the US state of Colorado has been found to have a genetic mutation typical of Ashkenazi Jews. The finding suggests the presence of common roots that date back to the days of Christopher Columbus.

According to RT news, the so-called “Ashkenazi mutation” is a deleterious modification in BRCA1 gene which increases risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Researchers from the Sheba (Tel Hashomer) Medical Center in Israel found it in the DNA of descendants of those Indians who moved from Mexico to Colorado some 200 years ago.

The same mutation was earlier tracked in Hispanic Americans whose ancestors also arrived in the United States from Mexico and South America.

Computer analysis of genetic data has revealed that the two groups should have a common ancestor – a Jewish person who moved from Europe to the New World as far back as 600 years ago. At around the same time that Christopher Columbus discovered America, and the Jewish population was expelled from Spain.

In their publication in the European Journal of Human Genetics, the team, led by Eitan Friedman, notes that Colorado’s Mexican Indians do not seem to have any traditions that would link them to Jews


TOPICS: History; Religion; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: co; colorado; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; israel; jews; nativeamericans; orado
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To: Pharmboy; oh8eleven; blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Pharmboy.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


41 posted on 10/10/2012 6:58:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Pharmboy

So, we have a Jew who procreated like Genghis Kahn?


42 posted on 10/10/2012 7:30:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ConservativeMind

No...this was a mutation in the BRCA gene...it wasn’t one unique Y chromosome (which was the evidence from the Ghengis Khan story), so it was a group of people rather than one. At least that’s what it appears to be, though I am no expert.


43 posted on 10/10/2012 7:53:55 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: CottShop

http://forward.com/articles/134758/family-roots/

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/dna-links-prove-jews-are-a-race-says-genetics-expert-1.428664

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/jews-and-their-dna/


44 posted on 10/10/2012 8:15:23 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

wow thanks- looks like I’ve got a lot of homework to do-


45 posted on 10/10/2012 9:05:07 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: KC_Lion

The yemenite jews are descended from those who left judah before the fall of the first temple. That is why their liturgy is older than that of other jews. They also took their families with them as it was an exodus... As to the articles posted that said jews are descended from just one man but 4 women, there are the 4 matriarchs


46 posted on 10/10/2012 9:05:44 PM PDT by jackal7163 (If you are not willing to achieve victory at any cost, you are doomed to defeat!)
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To: Pharmboy

During and before the Inquisition, many Jews changed their names and went underground (in worship) to avoid persecution. One surname that comes to mind is Benavidez. A shortened form of Ben David with the “ez” added to sound more Spanish.


47 posted on 10/10/2012 9:11:38 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (The pundits have forgotten the 2010 elections.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
So did Columbus have any Jewish members of his crew?

I read an article about 10 years ago that claimed that Columbus, himself, was Jewish. I think that it was in the Smithsonian.

48 posted on 10/11/2012 3:32:36 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (Joe Biden is reported to be seeking asylum in a foreign country so he does not have to debate Ryan.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Interesting...thanks.


49 posted on 10/11/2012 4:23:56 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: jjotto
If Jacob had twelve sons and only one tribe, Judah, is continuous and known extant would the other Lost Tribes not have a different DNA mix? Jews are descendants of Judah and not of all Israel, correct?
50 posted on 10/11/2012 4:50:53 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

No.

Judah, Benjamin and Levy survived more-or-less intact. Shimon’s portion was mostly within Judah, so it is safe to think they were included with Judah. These were joined by remnant faithful of the other tribes when the two kingdoms split.

The DNA profiles of all the tribes would be similar, and related most closely to others from the Mideast.


51 posted on 10/11/2012 7:46:12 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: CORedneck
My dad has been doing genealogy research and up the tree, we had a Jewish Rabbi which makes me 1/16th Jewish. And I am proud of that part of my ancestry. I am mostly German blood though.

I found out my great grandmother was a Russian Jew who suffered under the pogroms back in Russia, she had two villages burned out from under her.
52 posted on 10/11/2012 2:50:20 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
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Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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53 posted on 10/11/2012 5:59:36 PM PDT by SJackson (none of this suggests there are hostile feelings for the US in Egypt, Victoria Nuland, State Dept)
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To: KC_Lion

I myself am of the Sosumis..


54 posted on 10/11/2012 9:27:00 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Pharmboy

some science is hard to believe.


55 posted on 10/11/2012 9:29:06 PM PDT by dervish (ABO)
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To: Pharmboy

56 posted on 10/11/2012 9:38:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

Perfect, Joe...


57 posted on 10/11/2012 10:52:29 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: martin_fierro

Lozem Geyn!


58 posted on 10/11/2012 10:55:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: jjotto; 1010RD
Also, when Assyria crushed the Northern Kingdom of Israel, many refugees moved south. But putting that aside, the genes of Jews (Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi) are are closes to Samaritans (they still exist) and Kurds.

I've never understood the desire of Europeans to imagine themselves Northern Israelites. They betray their history in a desire to be a remnant of a group sent to oblivion for horrible behavior?

59 posted on 10/11/2012 11:17:46 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: sheik yerbouty
Sosumis?

Your Going to have to give me a definition on that one.

The only one I could find is that Sosumi is one of the system sounds introduced in Apple Inc.'s Macintosh System 7 operating system in 1991.

60 posted on 10/12/2012 7:16:45 AM PDT by KC_Lion ( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
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