I actually did read the Nature Genetics article Implications of biogeography of human populations for 'race' and medicine, but I didn't click the link for their phylogenetic tree. Well, Greg Cochran just emailed me and told me to look at where the Ashkenazi are placed. I cut it up so you can focus on it:

The Komi Zyrian are Finno-Ugric and live in Northeast Russia.

The Adygei are North Caucasian.

The Chuvash are a Turkic people of the Middle Volga.

The Khazars were of course a Turkic people of the Lower Volga region.

I never said I'd drink milk....

Related: Jews & Khazars. Also,


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