Khazar myth

Khazar myth, also known as the Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi origin, is a disproven antisemitic conspiracy theory^[1] alleging that "European Jews descended from the Khazars".^[1] Decades of peer-reviewed genetic studies have found no scientific evidence for the Khazar myth.^[2][3]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1}
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2. ↑
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   • Kopelman NM, Stone L, Wang C, Gefel D, Feldman MW, Hillel J, Rosenberg NA (December 2009). "Genomic microsatellites identify shared Jewish ancestry intermediate between Middle Eastern and European populations". BMC Genetics. 10: 80. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-10-80. PMC 2797531. PMID 19995433.
   • Behar, Doron M.; et al.: "The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people". Nature, 2010.
   • "No Evidence of Genome Wide Khazar Origin of Modern Jews".
   • Rubin, Rita. "Jews a Race' Genetic Theory Comes Under Fierce Attack by DNA Expert". The Forward, 7 May 2013.
3. ↑
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   • Flegontov P, Kassian A, Thomas MG, Fedchenko V, Changmai P, Starostin G (August 2016). "Pitfalls of the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) Approach Applied to Human Genetic History: A Case Study of Ashkenazi Jews". Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (7): 2259–65. doi:10.1093/gbe/evw162. PMC 4987117. PMID 27389685.
   • Beider, Alexander (2017). "Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Here's The Proof". Forward. Retrieved 1 January 2019.