This genetic burden suggests that the population was shaped by what geneticists call a founder event or a bottleneck. In other words, a small number of foremothers and forefathers contributed much of ...

Scientists may have solved the question of why Ashkenazi Jews are significantly more susceptible to a rare genetic disorder known as Gaucher disease – and the answer may help settle the debate about ...

New research has uncovered several novel genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) that may be unique to Ashkenazi Jews. Investigators conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for AD ...

A rare genetic disorder that disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jews is also a safeguard against tuberculosis, a new study shows, and that discovery could explain a longstanding scientific mystery.

Identifying and classifying gene mutations — which are the permanent changes in a person’s DNA genetic code — are critical in better understanding, and with research, eventually treating or preventing ...

Existing predictive models overstate the risks for Ashkenazi Jewish women of developing breast cancer. That’s according to a paper led by University of Manchester researchers to be published next ...

In their new book, “10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution,” authors Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, researchers at the University of Utah, elaborate on their ...

Alzheimer's is a specific type of dementia. A groundbreaking study by Israeli scientists has identified a significant ethnic disparity in the prevalence of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, show that ...

About two-thirds of Jews today—or roughly ten million people—are Ashkenazi, referring to a recent origin from Eastern and Central Europe. They reside mostly in the United States and Israel. Ashkenazi ...

BERLIN (JTA) – The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long before the Nazis began their campaign ...