Hi Cheri, I was informed by someone that attended the recent talk in New York by Bennett Greenspan regarding the differences in Ashkenazi and Sephardic ancestry that Doron Behar the geneticist at FTDNA has collected some samples of Sephardic Jews in North Africa. However there were problems with those samples the community they collected from was very admixed with Berber DNA, therefore it was decided that FTDNA wouldn't use those samples for the Sephardic reference population. I don't recall the exact details regarding plan B but it now appears that FTDNA is working with someone in Israel to collect samples of Sephardic Jews in Israel. The person that informed me of this also got the sense that the it would take about a year before a Sephardic reference population would be ready for MyOrigins. Antonio
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