Oleg Zabluda's blog
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
 
Jewishness is transmitted from mother to children, undiluted.
Jewishness is transmitted from mother to children, undiluted. Father doesn't matter, since nobody really knows who is the father. Mother is 100% Jew (there is no other kind), sons and daughters both are 100% Jews, but only daughters pass it on, sons don't.

So Jewishness can't reside anywhere on the chromosomes, not even on X, since (1) everything except X gets diluted, and (b) maternal granddaughter can have both X chromosomes from non-Jewish grandparents (ditto with dominant alleles).

So, Jewishness must reside in mitochondria. Which also resolves the issue with tri-parent babies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism

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