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To: combjelly who wrote (802930)8/20/2014 1:45:44 PM
From: SilentZ  Respond to of 1583808
 
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The Ashkenazi Jews concentrated several genetic disorders that helped them adapt to the crowded, unsanitary conditions in the ghettos. For example, Tay-Sachs confers a resistance to TB if you only carry one gene. That probably was on the scale of less than a millennium.

That's a good point. Those are pretty serious environmental pressures. However, that would probably have been about a millennium, no? Middle Ages until like the 19th Century...

-Z


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