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The most common haplotype is R1b (49.3%). Second comes I (13.4%), next J/J2 (12.0%) and E3b (12.0%). The relatively high level of Semitic/North African lineages, coupled with R1b and I, suggests to us that this was largely a Sephardic and Moorish population, composed of both early and later converts to Judaism (or Islam). ................
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