The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people
@article{Behar2010TheGS,
title={The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people},
author={Doron M. Behar and Bayazit Yunusbayev and Mait Metspalu and Ene Metspalu and Saharon Rosset and Jüri Parik and Siiri Rootsi and Gyaneshwer Chaubey and Ildus A Kutuev and Guennady Yudkovsky and Elza K. Khusnutdinova and Oleg P. Balanovsky and Ornella Semino and Lu{\'i}sa Pereira and David Comas and David Gurwitz and Batsheva Bonn{\'e}-Tamir and Tudor Parfitt and Michael F. Hammer and Karl Skorecki and Richard Villems},
journal={Nature},
year={2010},
volume={466},
pages={238-242},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4307824}
}High-density bead arrays to genotype individuals from 14 Jewish Diaspora communities are used to compare patterns of genome-wide diversity with those from 69 Old World non-Jewish populations, of which 25 have not previously been reported.
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