Cross-dressing among medieval Ashkenazi Jews by Lena Roos

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Analysis of genetic variation in Ashkenazi Jews by high density SNP genotyping by Ellis Nathan A, Norton Larry, Friedman Eitan, Klein Robert J, Lautenberger James A, Kirchhoff Tomas, Eskin Eleazar, Stefanov Stefan A, Satagopan Jaya, Struewing Jeffery P, Lohmueller Kirk E, Gold Bert, Olshen Adam B, Viale Agnes, Lee Catherine S, Borgen Patrick I, Clark Andrew G, Offit Kenneth, Boyd Jeff

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Genetic isolates such as the Ashkenazi Jews (AJ) potentially offer advantages in mapping novel loci in whole genome disease association studies. …”
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Population‐based screening of Uruguayan Ashkenazi Jews for recurrent BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic sequence variants by Cecilia Castillo, Nora Artagaveytia, Lucia Brignoni, Yael Laitman, Natalia Camejo, Ana Laura Hernández, Gabriel Krygier, Alfonso Cayota, Lucia Delgado, Eitan Friedman

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Real World Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Population Screening for BRCA Variants among Ashkenazi Jews Compared with Family History-Based Strategies by Rachel Michaelson-Cohen, Matan J. Cohen, Carmit Cohen, Dan Greenberg, Amir Shmueli, Sari Lieberman, Ariela Tomer, Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Amnon Lahad

“…We analyzed the cost-effectiveness of BRCA1/BRCA2 population screening (PS) in Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), for whom carrier rate is 2.5%, compared with two existing strategies: cascade testing (CT) in carrier’s relatives (≥25% carrier probability) and international family history (IFH)-based guidelines (>10% probability). …”
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Beyond the “Jewish panel”: the importance of offering expanded carrier screening to the Ashkenazi Jewish population by Shelley Dolitsky, M.D., Anjali Mitra, M.D., Shama Khan, M.P.H., M.S., L.C.G.C., Elena Ashkinadze, M.S., L.C.G.C., Mark V. Sauer, M.D., M.S.

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EUROPEAN JEWS IN RUSSIAN TURKESTAN AT THE TURN OF THE 19-20TH CENTURIES by Semen I Gitlin

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Prevalence of 185delAG and 5382insC mutations in BRCA1, and 6174delT in BRCA2 in women of Ashkenazi Jewish origin in southern Brazil by Crisle Vignol Dillenburg, Isabel Cristina Bandeira, Taiana Valente Tubino, Luciana Grazziotin Rossato, Eleonora Souza Dias, Ana Cristina Bittelbrunn, Sandra Leistner-Segal

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Ashkenazi Jewish and Other White <i>APC</i> I1307K Carriers Are at Higher Risk for Multiple Cancers by Esther Forkosh, Michael Bergel, Kathryn E. Hatchell, Sarah M. Nielsen, Brandie Heald, Ariel A. Benson, Eitan Friedman, Edward D. Esplin, Lior H. Katz

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Genome-Wide association study identifies candidate genes for Parkinson's disease in an Ashkenazi Jewish population by Liu Xinmin, Cheng Rong, Verbitsky Miguel, Kisselev Sergey, Browne Andrew, Mejia-Sanatana Helen, Louis Elan D, Cote Lucien J, Andrews Howard, Waters Cheryl, Ford Blair, Frucht Steven, Fahn Stanley, Marder Karen, Clark Lorraine N, Lee Joseph H

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PATIENTS AT RISK OF THEIR ETHNIC BACKGROUND by Valeriu Popescu

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Evaluation of genetic alterations in hereditary cancer susceptibility genes in the Ashkenazi Jewish women community of Mexico by Clara Estela Díaz-Velásquez, Rina Gitler, Adriana Antoniano, Ronny Kershenovich Sefchovich, Aldo Hugo De La Cruz-Montoya, Héctor Martínez-Gregorio, Ernesto Arturo Rojas-Jiménez, Ricardo Cortez Cardoso Penha, Luis Ignacio Terrazas, Luis Ignacio Terrazas, Talia Wegman-Ostrosky, Ephrat Levi-Lahad, Jovanny Zabaleta, Jovanny Zabaleta, Sandra Perdomo, Felipe Vaca-Paniagua, Felipe Vaca-Paniagua, Felipe Vaca-Paniagua

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The ′ugliness′ of Jewish prayer: Voice quality as the expression of identity by Friđeši Judit

“…This article is based on the musical material and interviews the author collected in Hungary, France, Czechoslovakia, the USA and Israel in the course of thirty years of her fieldwork among the traditional East-Ashkenazi Jews. It relates to the aesthetic concepts of the prayer chant of the Ashkenazi Jews of East Europe (′East -Ashkenazim′) as it appears to have existed before World War II, survived in the oral tradition until the 1970s and exists sporadically up to the present.…”
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Features of patients with hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome caused by duplication of GREM1 and implications for screening and surveillance by Lieberman, S, Walsh, T, Schechter, M, Adar, T, Goldin, E, Beeri, R, Sharon, N, Baris, H, Ben Avi, L, Half, E, Lerer, I, Shirts, B, Pritchard, C, Tomlinson, I, King, M, Levy-Lahad, E, Peretz, T, Goldberg, Y

“…We report 4 extended families with the duplication near GREM1 previously found in Ashkenazi Jews; 3 families were identified at cancer genetic clinics in Israel and 1 family was identified in a cohort of patients with familial colorectal cancer. …”

HLA polymorphism in Israel. 9. An overall comparative analysis. by Bonné-Tamir, B, Bodmer, J, Bodmer, W, Pickbourne, P, Brautbar, C, Gazit, E, Nevo, S, Zamir, R

“…Estimates of "average" distances within major population groups suggest that the Ashkenazi Jews (Poles, Russians, Rumanians and Germans) are a more homogeneous population than East European non-Jews or than Middle-Eastern populations (Arabs, Armenians, Lebanese and Turks). …”

Language, Religion and Difference: North African and Turkish Jewish Identity Formation Vis-À-Vis Ashkenazim in Canada by Övgü Ülgen

“… This article examines Sephardic identity formation in the North American context through Sephardic Jews’ encounter with their co-religionists, Ashkenazi Jews. It explores the shifting cultural, linguistic and traditional boundaries between Ashkenazi Jews and North African and Turkish Jews in Montreal and Toronto to understand the North American dynamics of this inter-ethnic encounter. …”
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Counting the founders: the matrilineal genetic ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora. by Doron M Behar, Ene Metspalu, Toomas Kivisild, Saharon Rosset, Shay Tzur, Yarin Hadid, Guennady Yudkovsky, Dror Rosengarten, Luisa Pereira, Antonio Amorim, Ildus Kutuev, David Gurwitz, Batsheva Bonne-Tamir, Richard Villems, Karl Skorecki

“…Unlike the previously reported pattern observed among Ashkenazi Jews, the numerically major portion of the non-Ashkenazi Jews, currently estimated at 5 million people and comprised of the Moroccan, Iraqi, Iranian and Iberian Exile Jewish communities showed no evidence for a narrow founder effect, which did however characterize the smaller and more remote Belmonte, Indian and the two Caucasus communities. …”
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The Diagnostic Yield and Implications of Targeted Founder Pathogenic Variant Testing in an Israeli Cohort by Aasem Abu Shtaya, Inbal Kedar, Samar Mattar, Ahmad Mahamid, Lina Basel-Salmon, Sarit Farage Barhom, Sofia Naftaly Nathan, Nurit Magal, Noy Azulay, Michal Levy Zalcberg, Rakefet Chen-Shtoyerman, Ori Segol, Mor Seri, Gili Reznick Levi, Shiri Shkedi-Rafid, Chana Vinkler, Iris Netzer, Ofir Hagari Bechar, Liat Chamma, Sari Liberman, Yael Goldberg

“…It was higher in Ashkenazi Jews than non-Ashkenazi Jews and Arabs, but not over 10% for any type of cancer, and it was significantly higher in younger (<40 years) than older (>50 years) individuals (7% vs. 1%). …”
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Trans-ethnical shift of the risk genotype in the CETP I405V with longevity: a Chinese case-control study and meta-analysis. by Liang Sun, Cai-you Hu, Xiao-hong Shi, Chen-guang Zheng, Ze-zhi Huang, Ze-ping Lv, Jin Huang, Gang Wan, Ke-yan Qi, Si-ying Liang, Lin Zhou, Ze Yang

“…BACKGROUND: The I405V polymorphism of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene (CETP) has been suggested to be a protective factor conferring longevity in Ashkenazi Jews, although findings in other races are not supportive. …”
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Di case, lingue e finestre: Ida Kaminska, attrice yiddish by Giulia Randone

“…This paper aims to explore the artistic biography of Ida Kaminska – the leading figure of the Yiddish theatre in Poland in the 20th century – proposing a new metaphor for the theatrical experience of the Ashkenazi Jews and a different use of the audio-visual sources. …”
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Without a compass: Salonikan Jews in Nazi Concentration Camps and later by Stefania Zezza

“…Despite their limited number in comparison with that of Ashkenazi Jews, the Salonikan Jews, initially deported to Auschwitz Birkenau and Bergen Belsen, went through all the hardest experiences and were sent to many camps in occupied Poland, and in Germany. …”
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