Counting the Founders: The Matrilineal Genetic Ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora

• Doron M. Behar,

  Affiliation Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

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• Ene Metspalu,

  Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

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• Toomas Kivisild,

  Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Saharon Rosset,

  Affiliation Data Analytics Research Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights., New York, United States of America

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• Shay Tzur,

  Affiliations Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Yarin Hadid,

  Affiliations Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Guennady Yudkovsky,

  Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Dror Rosengarten,

  Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Luisa Pereira,

  Affiliations Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Antonio Amorim,

  Affiliations Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Ildus Kutuev,

  Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia

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• David Gurwitz,

  Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel

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• Batsheva Bonne-Tamir,

  Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel

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• Richard Villems ,

  * E-mail: rvillems@ebc.ee

  Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

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• Karl Skorecki

  Affiliations Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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