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JICYMI from page 2 with the DNA of a reference group of 26 Flemish people have found well above-average verbal and mathematical
from Belgium, and then working out which genetic markers intelligence in Ashkenazi Jews, along with slightly below-
The authors of the new study come from nearly two dozen are unique to people of Ashkenazi descent. average spatial intelligence, producing an average IQ score
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research groups in New York City, Belgium and Israel. Many The similarities in the Ashkenazi genomes allowed the in the range of roughly 107 to 115, well above the general
of the co-authors are not Jewish, but they are interested in scientists to identify other markers that effectively makes mean of 100. Cochran et al. calculated an average IQ of
studying this group because it is genetically isolated (since all modern Ashkenazi Jews 30th cousins, stemming from 112–115, and Murray & Entine found 107–115.
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Jews have historically married within their faith, their gene the same population almost 800 years ago. This discovery A 1954 study found that 24 of the 28 (86%) children in
pool is closed). That makes it easier to identify genes linked may help medical professionals treat genetic diseases, the New York public school system who had an IQ of 170 or
to specific diseases, like Parkinson’s and cancer, links that because diseases like Tay Sachs and certain types of cancers higher were Jewish. One study found that Ashkenazi Jews
could well apply to non-Jews as well. The study was funded are more prevalent in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. In had only near-average visual-spatial intelligence, about IQ
by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science order to treat these diseases doctors will now have a better 98, while a 1958 study of yeshiva students demonstrated
Foundation, along with several private foundations. idea of where to sequence an individual’s genome to test that they had an extraordinary high verbal intelligence
In another result, reported by an international team of for disease susceptibility. This discovery also effectively (which includes verbal reasoning, comprehension, working
scientists, they announced on September 9, 2014, that they disproves the idea that Ashkenazi Jews were descended memory, and mathematical computation) as their median
had come to the conclusion that all Ashkenazi Jews are from Khazars who converted to Judaism during the 8th or verbal IQ was found to be nearly 126.
descended from an original group of about 350 individuals 9th centuries C.E. Another kind of evidence is that Ashkenazi Jews have had
who lived between 600 and 800 years ago. These people The most direct evidence of a difference in intelligence success disproportionate to their small population size in a
were of Middle-Eastern and European descent. The analysis among Ashkenazi Jews comes from psychometric tests. variety of intellectually demanding fields, such as science,
was done by comparing the DNA data of 128 Ashkenazi Jews Different studies have found different results, but most technology, politics, law, and commerce. Only about 2% of
the U.S. population is of full Ashkenazi Jewish descent,
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