Study Shows 20 Percent of Spaniards Have Jewish Ancestors
(IsraelNN.com) Twenty percent of the population of the Iberian Peninsula has Sephardic Jewish ancestry and 11 percent have Arab or Berber ancestors, geneticists have found. The genetic signatures of people in Spain and Portugal provide "new and explicit evidence of the mass conversions of Sephardic Jews and Muslims to Catholicism in the 15th and 16th centuries," following the expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from that country.
The research was carried out by a team of geneticists and published in a report by the American Journal of Human Genetics and the International Herald Tribune (IHT).
The Alhambra Decree
The findings have a bearing on the question of how many Jews converted to Christianity and how many chose to remain Jewish and be expelled, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed the Alhambra Decree ordering Jews out of Spain. READ MORE...
I have not read any of the finer details of the actual study, but I suspect the Y-Chromosomal markers they are pin-pointing are directly related to the House of Judah (the Jews) and not reflecting the House of Joseph (Ephraim) which has a much larger representation in the Spanish population than just 20 percent.
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