>>15119561>Hard to tell sometimes isn’t it?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730349/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20925954/>Ashkenazi Jewish participants showed smaller paired Fst values with southern European populations (e.g. Ashkenazi/Italian, Fst =0.004) than with northern populations (e.g. Ashkenazi/Swedish, Fst = 0.0120).> According to the autosomal polymorphisms the investigated Jewish populations do not share a common origin, and EEJ are closer to Italians in particular and to Europeans in general than to the other Jewish populations.> The close genetic resemblance to Italians accords with the historical presumption that Ashkenazi Jews started their migrations across Europe in Italy and with historical evidence that conversion to Judaism was common in ancient Rome.https://www.science.org/content/article/did-modern-jews-originate-italy>David B. Goldstein, the Duke University geneticist who first found similarities between the founding mothers of Ashkenazi Jewry and European populations, said that, although Richards' analysis was well-done and 'could be right,'[72] the estimate that 80% of Ashkenazi Jewish Mt-DNA is European was not statistically justified given the random rise and fall of mitochondrial DNA lineages. Geneticist Antonio Torroni of the University of Pavia found the conclusions very convincing, adding that recent studies of cell nucleus DNA also show "a very close similarity between Ashkenazi Jews and Italians"It's hard to tell because southern Italians are the closest Europeans genetically to Ashkenazis.
