The genetic signatures of people in Spain and Portugal provide new and explicit evidence of the mass conversions of Sephardic Jews and Muslims to Catholicism in the 15th and 16th centuries after Christian armies wrested Spain back from Muslim control, a team of geneticists claims.
Related (1): Major study of Iberian Y-chromosomes (Adams et al.)
Related (2): 500 years on from the Inquisition, DNA is able to show the Moors never went home
Related (3): Past religious diversity and intolerance have profound impact on genetics of Iberian people
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