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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Genetics of the Jews
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:08:25 -0600
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Type A? Is that the R1a with the 12 at 464b?

While many Jews have this form of R1a, has it been found at higher frequency
also among those likely by other lines of reasoning to be descendants of the
Khazars?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Genetics of the Jews


> Not exactly.
>
> No one with substantial knowledge of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA seriously
> suggests
> that it primarily descends from the Khazars. At this time, however, I
> continue to consider the Khazar hypothesis the most credible explanation
> for
> the amazing frequency (52% in one study) of A Type R1a1 among Ashkenazi
> Levites.
>
> http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf/400971.pdf
>
>> From: [mailto:genealogy-dna-
>> ] On Behalf Of Al Aburto
>> This new study of puts that idea of the Khazars to rest it seems. Makes
>> more sense that the Ashkenazi Jews settled in the Rhine Valley in the
>> first millennium CE and then migrated to Eastern Europe between the
>> 11'th & 15'th centuries.
>
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