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There are a lot of very white Italians. However, Sicilians have a lot of African blood and produce some nice looking women.Where does it say its minimal?
You article admits that Ashkenazi Jews are basically when Semitic men met Italian women, there might be some German,Polish, or Russian DNA in Ashkenazi Jews, but it's just minimal.
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The team found that four founders were responsible for 40 percent of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA, and that all of these founders originated in Europe. The majority of the remaining people could be traced to other European lineages.
All told, more than 80 percent of the maternal lineages of Ashkenazi Jews could be traced to Europe, with only a few lineages originating in the Near East."
That's only the maternal line.
Your link also admits this.
Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European
Past research found that 50 percent to 80 percent of DNA from the Ashkenazi Y chromosome, which is used to trace the male lineage, originated in the Near East, Richards said. That supported a story wherein Jews came from Israel and largely eschewed intermarriage when they settled in Europe. [The Holy Land: 7 Amazing Archaeological Fin
Yeah but right under that it says this? I mean like the next paragraph.
"But historical documents tell a slightly different tale. Based on accounts such as those of Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, by the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in A.D. 70, as many as 6 million Jews were living in the Roman Empire, but outside Israel, mainly in Italy and Southern Europe."
So, they're Italians?
Certainly not very White.