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Study: Hungary has top rate of Ashkenazi genes after Israel

  • August 13, 2019

Genetic tests conducted in Hungary advise that a relations superiority there of Jewish genes is double that of a United States.

In new contrast conducted by a MyHeritage organisation and a Institute for Jewish Policy Research, somewhat some-more than 7.5 percent of 4,981 people tested had some-more than 25 percent Jewish Ashkenazi genes, a organisation announced Tuesday.

Hungary has about 100,000 people who are deliberate Jewish by a largest classification representing Hungarian Jewry. That series accounts for about 1 percent of Hungary’s population.

Gilad Yefet, a deputy of MyHeritage, pronounced in a matter that contrast in other countries suggests that Hungary has a top superiority of Ashkenazi Jewish genes after Israel.

In tests conducted in a United States and Canada, usually 3.5 percent of tested people displayed Ashkenazi Jewish genes during a rate surpassing 25 percent of their genetic material.

Testing in Russia, Argentina and Ukraine all showed larger superiority than in a United States though smaller than in Hungary, according to a investigate by MyHeritage, that markets DNA tests commercially.

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