In reply to by L. Freedman

I mean, yeah, historians believe many Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews today are descents of people enslaved by the Roman Empire dating back to when the majority of Jews were expelled from the Levant. I think you are reading too much into exact DNA percentages, but I agree that it is interesting.

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