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To: Barnabus who wrote (25934)6/30/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: David  Read Replies (2) of 39621
 
Wasn't there a recent NY Times news story documenting, through genetic markers, tribal affiliation to the Cohenim by an ethnic group in South Africa with an oral history that they were Jewish? The scientific studies indicated a strong biological link in that group to other Cohenim in terms of the incidence of a particular genetic identifier passed only through the paternal (tribe-identifying) line -- and also shared by known Jewish populations in equally strong measure.

The point here is that if Askenazic Jews were really mostly latecomer Kazars, there is no way there would be a uniform, very high statistical clustering in the known Jewish population of the Cohen tribal marker (somewhere around 90%). Instead, the Sephardic population marker would be at 90%, and the Ashkenazi genetic marker percentage would be much lower (in a proportion that would suggest the level of Kazar genetic dilution).

This data strongly suggest the Kazar theory is baseless.
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