Ashkenazim are closer to most Europeans than Basques and Sardinians are.

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Despite some genetic drift, bottlenecks and endogamy, Ashkenazim are not as differentiated from most Europeans as Basques and ESPECIALLY not Sardinians. Both have reduced Steppe, whilst Sardinians have an inflated level of Anatolian Farmer ancestry. Combine that with some founder effects and notable genetic drift means that both populations are more distant from most Europeans than Ashkenazim are.

I'm not even gonna get into how pigmented Sardinians are on average.

European Population Genetic Substructure: Further Definition of Ancestry Informative Markers for Distinguishing Among Diverse European Ethnic Groups - PMC

The definition of European population genetic substructure and its application to understanding complex phenotypes is becoming increasingly important. In the current study using over 4000 subjects genotyped for 300 thousand SNPs we provide further ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The "purest" of "Europeans" are MORE different than the "mutt" Jews.

 

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Bump.

 

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