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Incredible coincidence discovered in a long-lost medieval cemetery

Incredible coincidence discovered in a long-lost medieval cemetery

In 2003, workers building a highway through a small township in Ireland stumbled across a long-lost medieval graveyard. Of the approximately 1,300 bodies found at the site near Ballyhanna township, a few of the older interred stood out. Their bones were riddled with benign tumors caused by a rare disease, but for oddly different reasons. …

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Something Happened to Ashkenazi Jews in Medieval Europe to Eliminate Genetic Diversity, Study Finds

Something Happened to Ashkenazi Jews in Medieval Europe to Eliminate Genetic Diversity, Study Finds

About two-thirds of Jews today – or about 10 million people – are Ashkenazim, referring to a recent Central and Eastern European origin. They primarily reside in the United States and Israel. Ashkenazi Jews carry a particularly high burden of disease-causing genetic mutations, such as those in the BRCA1 gene associated with an increased risk …

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