Schelly Talalay Dardashti

How Do Sephardic Jews Figure Into The Genetic Equation?

When Hispanic women in Colorado?s San Luis Valley were shown to carry a high frequency of the Ashkenazic breast-cancer gene, some genetic experts began to wonder. Subsequent investigations showed that the women in question were likely the descendents of conversos fleeing the Inquisition, who settled in the region late in the 16th century. A number…