Ashkenazi Jews’ DNA Is Linked To A Group Of 330 People From The Middle Ages Geneticists say the group was evenly mixed of Middle Eastern and European descent.

Ashkenazi takes over for Ruth Porat, who has been Alphabet’s longest-tenured CFO since taking over the job in 2015. Porat, 66, has been filling two C-suite roles since September of last year ...

On average, all Ashkenazi Jews are genetically as closely related to each other as fourth or fifth cousins, said Dr. Harry Ostrer, a pathology, pediatrics and genetics professor at the Albert ...

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The bodies were later dated to the early Middle Ages, and preliminary genetic investigation in 2010 identified the bodies as Ashkenazi Jews. Now, in a stud y published Monday in Current Biology, ...

For Ashkenazi Jews like myself, this disease looms as an even larger threat compared to most women. A mutation in the BRCA gene is the most common cause of hereditary breast cancer.

Converts do not always have an “Ashkenazi” heritage or experience with Ashkenazi culture – and many converts are, of course, white. (Many are not, and are doubly affected.) ...

Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to a “bottleneck” of just 350 individuals dating back to between 600 and 800 years ago, a new study concludes.

One in 40 Ashkenazi women carries a breast cancer-causing gene — yet some experts urge caution when it comes to genetic testing. JTA breaks down what Jewish women need to know.

The development of the Jewish community in Venezuela and the integration of Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews was made possible by two factors. The first is the democratic environment that had been ...

Ashkenazi Jews hail from Eastern Europe—"Ashkenaz" is the Hebrew word for Germany—and comprise the bulk of the Jewish population in the US.

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory has wrapped principal photography on hybrid drama Mosolov’s Suitcase after a near six-year struggle to complete the production in the face ...