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PNAS | January 30, 2001 | vol. 98 | no. 3 | 858-863
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Anthropology-BS
 Distinctive genetic signatures in the Libyan Jews

Noah A. Rosenberg*,dagger , Eilon WoolfDagger , Jonathan K. Pritchard§, Tamar Schaap, Dov Gefel||, Isaac Shpirer**, Uri Lavidagger dagger , Batsheva Bonné-TamirDagger Dagger , Jossi HillelDagger , and Marcus W. Feldman*

* Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305; Dagger  Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel; § Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1-3TG, United Kingdom;  Department of Human Genetics, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel; || Department of Medicine-C, Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon 78306, Israel; ** Pulmonary Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, P. O. Beer Yaacov, Zerifin 70300, Israel; dagger dagger  Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel; and Dagger Dagger  Department of Human Genetics, Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel

Communicated by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, November 27, 2000 (received for review August 17, 2000)

Unlinked autosomal microsatellites in six Jewish and two non-Jewish populations were genotyped, and the relationships among these populations were explored. Based on considerations of clustering, pairwise population differentiation, and genetic distance, we found that the Libyan Jewish group retains genetic signatures distinguishable from those of the other populations, in agreement with some historical records on the relative isolation of this community. Our methods also identified evidence of some similarity between Ethiopian and Yemenite Jews, reflecting possible migration in the Red Sea region. We suggest that high-resolution statistical methods that use individual multilocus genotypes may make it practical to distinguish related populations of extremely recent common ancestry.

dagger To whom reprint requests should be addressed. E-mail: noah{at}charles.stanford.edu.


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