{"id":149,"date":"2006-10-06T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T07:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/146.107.134.84\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/10\/06\/genetic-archaeology\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T08:03:35","slug":"genetic-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/genetic-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing a study of European population stratification, I came across an older but interesting study of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v394\/n6689\/abs\/394138a0_fs.html;jsessionid=A213F427FC1C68C1F8E7A25D0B017199\">old testament priests<\/a> that compares the Levi tribe (where Moses was a member) with the Cohanim  tribe (descendents of Moses&#8217;s brother Aaron who served as priests). The investigators traced patrilineal inheritance since the temple period 3,000 -2,000 years until present, and showed current levites unlike the Cohanin having a heterogeneous origin. The coalescence of of Cohanim chromosomes is dated to between Exodus and the destruction of the first temple in 586 BC.<\/p>\n<p>Most current research is dedicated to between species comparisons but unfortunately the wonderful older Y and mtDNA approaches haven\u00c2\u00b4t kept pace with the current SNP technology developement. There would be many  intersting studies possible following the timeline of European history, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 04.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing a study of European population stratification, I came across an older but interesting study of old testament priests that compares the Levi tribe (where Moses was a member) with the Cohanim tribe (descendents of Moses&#8217;s brother Aaron who served as priests). The investigators traced patrilineal inheritance since the temple period 3,000 -2,000 years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/genetic-archaeology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genetic archaeology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2945,4],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-genetics-biology","tag-population-epidemiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}