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About Harry Ostrer

Harry Ostrer, MD, is a long-time investigator of the genetics of the Jewish people. In 2007, he organized the Jewish HapMap Project, an international effort to map and sequence the genomes of Jewish people. In a series of publications about Abraham’s Children in the Genome Era, Dr. Ostrer and his team of investigators demonstrated that the history of the Jewish Diasporas could be seen in the genomes of contemporary Jewish people. He is Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.

The Genetic Origins of Ashkenazi Jews

Filed Under DNA Studies, Europe - Northern By Harry Ostrer on March 22, 2020

Ashkenazi Jews (from the Hebrew word for “German”) are the largest of the Jewish groups and number some 10 to 11 million people today in a worldwide Jewish population of 13 million people (Reviewed in Ostrer, 2001; Ostrer, 2012). During […]

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