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by oh_sigh 3448 days ago
http://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-europea...

> The genetics suggest many of the founding Ashkenazi women were actually converts from local European populations.

Okay, even if they were over-represented in Ashkenazim, where were all the Latinos and blacks? 30% should be one of those two groups if you wanted to be proportionate to the US population, but it was definitely way lower than 30%(again, by visual inspection only).