A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe. Spanish researchers announced their ...
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While there are genetic markers that are more or less prevalent among Jewish populations, there’s no such thing as “Jewish DNA.” More importantly, DNA is not identity. Lab results tell us less than ...
To discover that Christopher Columbus, long whispered to have Jewish heritage, had markers of Sephardic DNA is to me about as monumental as learning the Earth is round circa 1492. In other words, it’s ...
(JTA) — Adolf Hitler had a sexual disorder that made it more likely for him to have a micro-penis, according to the first-ever analysis of his DNA. He also did not have the Jewish ancestors that some ...
A class action lawsuit was filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco against 23andMe, a genetics information and testing company headquartered in South San Francisco. The suit broadly challenges ...