Are Jews Genetically Superior?

There is a lot of debate on the Internet - since there are many Nobel laureates and outstanding scientists among Ashkenazi Jews, are Jews genetically superior? Well, It depends on how you look at it.. As you know, the Ashkinazi Jews lived in small communities In central and Easten Europe, and as a result of this, there is a lot of inbreeding among them, plus add founder effect? as well as they went through many bottle necks (when jews were litteraly killed).. As a geneticist, I will tell you - this is all very bad for the health of the population. Among Jews, many genetic diseases are much more common than among other groups living in Europe. Look at this table - here is a list of 11 serious genetic diseases - from this table we see what percentage of the population are carriers of defective alleles. If we put all these diseases together, then every 4th Jew will be a carrier of a serious disease.. In total, screening is now done for 47 diseases, if we take into account other diseases, then every second Jew is a carrier of a serious genetics disease.. Now you can draw conclusions: are Jews genetically or inferior, no offence - just face the truth. But thanks to genetic screening, which more and more Jewish couples who decide to get married are going through, it is possible in 100-200 years to reduce the frequency of these harmful alleles to the average European level and even lower..
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