In the article, could not find any reference to the Jewish ethnic connection of Ezavas. Hence unable to understand the rationale behind the question. The article says about European lineage of Ezhava community.
- Jewish claim do not make sense as Jewish People were Asians and not Europeans. (Brief History of Israel and the Jewish People)
[The
Jewish people were exiled from Israel by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.
They survived, returned to Israel after 70 years, and then built the
Second Temple. Then in 70 CE(after Jesus’s was crucifed ), the Romans
destroyed the Second Temple, causing the Jews to go into exile once
again. Thus they spread around the globe including Europe and Kerala.]
Ezhava community was in Kerala much earlier than all these. The Ezhavas have an intriguing history. The most persistent belief is that they are the original people of Kerala – the soldiers of the Villavar (archer) community which founded the Chera kingdom.
- The whole article (could not find the word Jewish in it).
Ezhavas has got a paternal lineage of European origin: Study
Ezhavas
showed more genotypic resemblance to the Jat Sikh population of Punjab
and the Turkish populations than to East Asians, indicating a paternal
lineage of European origin, according to a study on Deoxyribo Nulceic
Acid (DNA) profiling of Kerala population conducted by a three-member
team of experts attached to Department of Biotechnology and Biochemical
Engineering at Sree Budha College of Engineering (SBCE) at Pattoor near
Pandalam.
The study was conducted by Dr
Seema Nair.P, Head of the department of Biotechnology and Biochemical
Engineering at SBCE, Aswathy Geetha and Chippy Jagannath of the same
department with the help of a group of students.
The
study report has already been published in the Croatian Medical Journal
(Croat MedJ), giving it an international exposure recently.
According
to Dr Seema, the study has completely analysed the short tandem repeat
(STR) profile of Y-chromosomes in male blood samples.
Whole
blood samples were collected from 104 unrelated healthy men of the
Ezhava population over a period of one year from October 2009.
Genomic
DNA was extracted by salting out method and all samples were genotyped
for the 8 Y-STR loci by the AmpFiSTR Y-filer PCR Amplification Kit. The
haplotype (and allele frequencies were determined by direct counting and
analyzed using Arlequin 3.1 software, and molecular variance was
calculated with the Y-chromosome haplotype reference database online
analysis tool, Y-Chromosome STR Haplotype Reference Database.
Haplotype is a combination of DNA sequences (alleles) at different places (loci), she said.
As many as 98 of the 104 haplotypes examined were found unique ones.
“Out
of the 104 haplotypes, 10 were found identical to the Jat Sikh
population of Punjab which is the greatest number among the Indian
populations, and 4 to the Turkish population, which is the greatest
number among the European populations. It further clarifies that the
Ezhavas were genetically more similar to the Europeans (60%) than to the
East Asians (40%),’’ the study report said.
“Due
to the geographical position of the Indian Peninsula between Africa,
the Pacific, and west and east Eurasia, different populations have moved
through its territory. This is why ethnic Indian population shows
enormous cultural, linguistic, and genetic diversity. The long seacoast
of Kerala on the southern-most part of India has provided a gateway to
India for many Asian, European, and Srilankan missionaries and traders.
Non-tribal communities of Kerala, as shown by a human leukocyte antigen
(HLA) analysis, were influenced by Dravidian, Indo-European, and East
Asian gene pools.’’
According to the
allele frequency distribution, the Ezhava population of Kerala has got
features of European, Central Asian, and East Asian gene pools.
Mitochondrial DNA studies also validated the presence of two distinct,
eastern and western Eurasian-specific lineage groups in India,
suggesting that there were at least two separate migration events to
India, says the study report.
Dr Seema
claims that this is the first report on the Y-STR profile in Kerala
population. The Ezhava population was compared with other Indian
populations and with selected world populations in order to investigate
the pattern of paternal contributions, she adds.
According
to Dr K. Sasikumar, chairman of Sree Budha Education Society who was
the driving spirit behind the project, the data made available through
the SBCE study would be of great help in developing unique genetic
fingerprints or a DNA Barcode for personnel identification, forensic
analysis, etc. The study has got much relevance as genetic
fingerprinting can also help us a lot in predicting our future health,
he said.
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