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9-year-old daughter, the product of a
mixed marriage, has a 50-50 chance of
being a carrier. It's difficult to trace this
wayward gene as my family tree disap-
pears into the fog of the 19th-century
diaspora. The only thing scientists can
say for certain is that, like some 40-
odd other genetic disorders that are
common among Jews, this cancer is a
tragic symbol of our shared ancestry.
J
ews are a genetic goldmine.
No one wants to resurrect the
pre-genetic notion of race in
which people
were ranked by
characteristics.
But in order to
offer invaluable
insights into the
origins of dis-
The Way We Are
ease, scientists
While the first sketch of the human
are committed
genome, unveiled in 2001, under-
to studying dis-
scored that humans are more alike
tinctive popu-
than different, the sequencing of the
lations based
entire genome has ushered in a more
on geography
precarious era. Geneticists are identify-
(Icelanders),
ing chunks of DNA, known as haplo-
cultures (gyp-
types, and the results of their research
sies) or religions (Amish).
stretches the limits of acceptable pub-
Since the founding of Ashkenazi
lic discourse.
Jewry until recent decades, despite
HapMaps suggest that humanity is
being scattered to winds of the world,
better understood as a collection of
the rate of non-Jewish lineages that
overlapping but identifiable popula-
have slipped into the Jewish
tions that, remarkably, mir-
gene pool, per generation,
ror traditional racial and
AURA. HAM'S
is estimated at 0.5 per-
ethnic groupings. Genetic
CUM DHEN
cent. Disease genes spread
blocks linked to human
4* .11
throughout the Jewish world
characteristics, including
PfHTITY,
and have stayed there.
body
type, behavior, skill
the
PEOPLE
In the late 1960s, when
sets and brain architecture,
my aunt, grandmother and
vary among ancestral
mother died of breast or
populations.
ovarian cancers, our family
Harmful mutated genes
believed these were tragic
usually disappear because
Entine's book
coincidences. But when my
people who carry them die
sister discovered a lump
at earlier ages or have dif-
in her breast five years ago
ficulty finding mates. Why
and diagnosed with breast cancer, a
haven't the deadliest genes passed out
genetic test discovered a variation of
of the Jewish gene pool, eradicated by
the BRCA2 gene, one of three forms
natural selection?
of this cancer that target Jews almost
Three scientists — Henry
exclusively.
Harpending and Jason Hardy of
While the general female population the University of Utah and Gregory
faces a 10 percent possibility of devel-
Cochran — have offered a fascinat-
oping breast or ovarian cancer, the life- ing and scientifically testable theory
time risk with one of these mutations
suggesting that Jews may be compen-
may rise to 80 percent.
sated by nature for suffering diseases
Most geneticists believe that these
because the genes that partly cause
three mutations trace to Jews who
them are linked directly or indirectly
lived 1,000 or more years ago when
to intelligence.
European Jewry numbered fewer
These scientists, all Christians, were
than 25,000 people. As Ashkenazi
intrigued by the remarkable success of
Jews passed through a "population
Jews — insert Jewish doctor or lawyer
bottleneck" and their numbers began
joke here — and their startlingly high
to explode, these genes spread quickly.
scores on IQ tests, which almost all
They became, along with cultural sig-
scientists believe are heavily influenced
natures such as devotion to the Torah
by genetics. Ashkenazi Jews average
and Talmud, markers of being Jewish.
between 107 and 115, significantly
I was tested and found out that I
carry the BRCA2 mutation; and my
Genetic on page A38
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