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Middle eastern genetic legacy in the paternal and maternal gene pools of Chuetas.
Scientific reports - 8 Dec 2020
Ferragut J F, Ramon C, Castro J A, Amorim A, Alvarez L, Picornell A
Abstract excerpt
Chuetas are a group of descendants of Majorcan Crypto-Jews (Balearic Islands, Spain) who were socially stigmatized and segregated by their Majorcan neighbours until recently; generating a community that, although after the seventeenth century no longer contained Judaic religious elements, maintained strong group cohesion, Jewishness consciousness, and endogamy. Collective memory fixed 15 surnames as a most...
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