Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
As coincidence would have it, both populations that have been the subject of this thread - (Ahskenazi) Jews and Cajuns - really do have (had) very high levels of inbreeding, and were formed from small founding populations.

As a result, both groups have high occurences of similar afflictions, notably Tay-Sachs, which is a near exclusive to Ashkenazi Jews and French-speaking North Americans.
It isn't that hard to figure out, a nice jewish girl, and everybody had her