Prof. Hans Grueneberg in Journal of Heredity (GRÜNEBERG J Hered.1936; 27: 225-228), wrote an article about a German Jewish family with hereditary absence of permanent canines. He published the genealogy of the family, too. Since I have that dental anomaly, it is certain that I am descended from the same ancestor, however, I know of no family connection to those German Jews described in 1936. My daughters apparently have their permanent canines, I never investigated.
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Do you think Jews are more likely to have genetic mutations, or do the genetic anomalies of Jews get reported more often?
We are the most observed and studied people in the world. I think we have much less deleterous mutations because of early inbreeding.
One other thing. I've been wanting to waste five minutes of your time for the last week or so. I've called environmentalism a religion on this blog, and a few other major political movements of the 20th century have had religious overtones too. We need a secular definition of religion, so here is mine:
A religion is a commonly held belief among a group of people about where their descendants will be in a thousand years.
Actually looking at my definition in print it seems juvenile, and has probably been written that way before. According to my definition Naziism is a religion, but you already knew that.
Jews have A LOT of genetic problems and disorders due to inbreeding over the centuries; see- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi#Specific_diseases_and_disorders
Many mental problems plague inbred Jews too - "Among the Jews the proportion of insane has been observed to be very large. From statistics collected by Buschan he concludes that they are four to six times more liable to mental disease than are non-Jews." - http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=I&artid=149#ixzz0WVLL4XTj
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Your sources are very old and uncertain. Please quote modern statistical data which can be relied on.
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