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. 2008 Apr 30;3(4):e2062. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002062

Table 1. List of populations and communities included in this study.

Population/Community N
NON-ASHKENAZI JEWS 1142
Caucasian 132
Azerbaijan (Mountain Jews) 58
Georgia 74
Ethiopian (Beta Israel) 29
Indian 79
Bombay (B'nei Israel) 34
Cochin 45
Near and Middle Eastern 251
Afghanistan 1
Iran 82
Iraq 135
Kurdistan, Iraq 12
Uzbekistan 17
Syria 4
North African 289
Algeria 20
Libya 83
Morocco 149
Tunisia 37
Iberian Exiles a 243
Portugal (Belmonte) 30
Bulgaria 71
Italy 9
Turkey 123
Former Yugoslavia 1
Miscellaneous 9
Yemenite 119
NON-JEWISH 253
Bedouins 58
Cherkess, Israel 8
Druze 77
Palestinians 110
Total 1395
a

The designation “Iberian Exiles” is applied to those Jewish communities which emanated from the Iberian Peninsula after the exile of Jews in 1492.