06 December 2008

DNA Indicates that 20 % of Iberian Population of Jewish Estraction

Interesting, but not really surprising:
Spain and Portugal have a history of fervent Catholicism, but almost a third of the population now turns out to have a non-Christian genetic heritage. About 20 percent of the current population of the Iberian Peninsula has Sephardic Jewish ancestry, and 11 percent bear Moorish DNA signatures, a team of geneticists reports.

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