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Occasional (talk) 15:57, 19 November 2012 (UTC) I am afraid I cannot understand your reason for removing my version. According to Behar about 40% of the current Ashkenazi population is descended matrilineally from just four women, that were "likely from a Hebrew/Levantine mtDNA pool". That does leave 60%, though of course not necessarily not descended from women of Levantine origin, but I did not say that. I said “at least some of whom might be descended from local women.” I cited Atzmon to the effect that “Four founder mitochondrial haplogroups of Middle Eastern origins comprise approximately 40% of the Ashkenazi Jewish genetic pool (citing Behar), whereas the remainder is comprised of other haplogroups, many of European origin.” Accordingly I altered the statement that the study by Feder confirms the hypothesis of the “founding of non-local origin” to read, “founding of substantial non-local origin.” And as regards the reference to “little or no gene flow from the local non-Jewish communities in Poland and Russia to the Jewish communities in these countries”  I added “This does not exclude gene flow in the earlier history of the Ashkenazi people, in southern and western Europe.” You say with your edit (but not on the talk page) “Findings of Behar concludes that the rest of A. Jews may have originated from 150 woman of Levantine origin.” I have not found that in the Behar article. Is it in another article of his?