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Reconstruction of patrilineages and matrilineages of Samaritans and other Israeli populations from Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA sequence variation.
Human mutation - 1 Sept 2004
Shen Peidong, Lavi Tal, Kivisild Toomas, Chou Vivian, Sengun Deniz, Gefel Dov, Shpirer Issac, Woolf Eilon, Hillel Jossi, Feldman Marcus W, Oefner Peter J
Abstract excerpt
The Samaritan community, which numbered more than a million in late Roman times and only 146 in 1917, numbers today about 640 people representing four large families. They are culturally different from both Jewish and non-Jewish populations in the Middle East and their origin remains a question of great interest. Genetic differences between the Samaritans and neighboring Jewish and non-Jewish populations are...
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