Members of the Jewish priesthood (Cohanim ... in both Sephardic and Ashkenazic populations have an unusual set of genetic markers on their Y chromosome. What is equally striking is that this ...

As he and his predecessors in the field of Jewish genetics have pointed out, the stakes in these genetic discoveries about Jews are high—a genetic demonstration of Middle Eastern origins that ...

Keinan is acknowledged in the study but was not involved in the research. “One might have thought that, after many years of genetic studies relating to Ashkenazi Jews . . . there would be little room ...