Scientists Analyzed Ashkenazi Jewish DNA — All 10 Million Descend From Only 350 People

Scientists Analyzed Ashkenazi Jewish DNA — All 10 Million Descend From Only 350 People

All 10 million Ashkenazi Jews alive today descend from only 350 people
who lived in medieval Europe. Scientists from Harvard, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and the Max Planck Institute analyzed ancient
DNA from 33 medieval skeletons in Erfurt, Germany, and uncovered the
truth: every Ashkenazi Jew is a 4th or 5th cousin of every other
Ashkenazi Jew. Published in Cell (2022), this is the genetic story of
one of the most extraordinary founder events in human history.