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3 unusual facts about Harry Ostrer


Genetic studies on Jews

In 2012, a genetic study carried out under the leadership of Harry Ostrer, from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that North African Jews are genetically closer to European and Middle Eastern Jews than to their long term host population.

Harry Ostrer said Richards' study seemed reasonable, and corresponded to the known facts of Jewish history.

Harry Ostrer

While working at the Khao I Dang Holding Center in Thailand in 1981, he recruited Thai and Khmer subjects into a study of the shared origin of the Hemoglobin E mutation.



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