Previous Y-chromosome studies have demonstrated that Ashkenazi Levites, members of a paternally inherited Jewish priestly caste, display a distinctive founder event within R1a, the most prevalent Y-chromosome haplogroup in Eastern Europe. Here we report the analysis of 16 whole R1 sequences and show that a set of 19 unique nucleotide substitutions defines the Ashkenazi R1a lineage. While our su...

A Study of Criticism on the Forms and Positive Effects al-Dakhil in Jalalain's Tafsir Story Prophet Musa Khidir In tafseer, Al-dakhil is inclusion baseless interpretation into book tafseer. Thebaseless to interpretations motivated by several elements israiliyyat, hadis\ da’if, maudu’, ta’wil or which defend interest a certain groups madzab. tafseer was exist since era has been sphreading until ...

Consumer preferences about locally grown foods have been studied principally as they concern meals consumed in the home, while knowledge about consumptions outside the home is still fragmented. Studying the relationship between local foods and out of the home consumptions instead proves particularly interesting, considering the growth of eating out habits. In this scenario, our paper intends to...

to know every phenomenon the first step is to know its root. hygiene and medicine have noble origin from the beginning of the recorded human history; in fact, they have been the milestone of human society. medical history will help us to know this background and roots and achaemenid period as a brilliant age of iranian heritage is meritorious to be studied. the present study is an attempt to fi...

Most studies of European genetic diversity have focused on large-scale variation and interpretations based on events in prehistory, but migrations and invasions in historical times could also have had profound effects on the genetic landscape. The Iberian Peninsula provides a suitable region for examination of the demographic impact of such recent events, because its complex recent history has ...

Definition and epidemiology Laron syndrome is a hereditary disease where there is a primary resistance to growth hormone because of a polymorphic molecular defect in the growth hormone receptor. It is clinically and in many biochemical aspects undistinguishable from isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD), and is characterised by high circulating growth hormone concentrations and low serum IG...

OBJECTIVE Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia (CDA) is characterized by ineffective erythropoiesis, binuclearity of erythroid precursors and secondary hemochromatosis. Recently, the gene mutated in CDA type II (CDA II), SEC23B, was identified. All Israeli patients with CDA II are of North African (mainly Moroccan) Jewish descent. We investigated the molecular basis of CDA II in those patients. ...

T he prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in families with breast and ovarian cancers depends on the type of cancer found, the number of cases, and the ethnic background of the family. The proportion of breast cancers attributable to BRCA1 or BRCA2 may also depend on the ethnic origin of families. Several mutations have been identified that are found only in specific countries or ethnic grou...