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Discover the evidence of Berber admixture among Sephardic Jews revealed through population genetic data sets and ADMIXTURE analyses.

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In case you don't know, Dienekes Pontikos has been posting a lot of analyses of availablepopulation geneticdata sets with the ADMIXTURE program. You can find his myriad posts under the ADMIXTURE-experiments tag. Below is a bar plot he generated today. To follow up a debate which occurred last spring, it does seem from several of his results that there is some evidence of Berber admixture among the Sephardic Jews.

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