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Recent research into Thomas Jefferson's DNA has found something which may link him to the Middle East or Africa:
The presidential chromosome turns out to belong to a rare class called ?K2?, which is found at its highest frequency in the Middle East and Eastern Africa, including Oman, Somalia and Iraq. Its closest match was in a man from Egypt. Could this mean that the President had recent ancestry in the Middle East?
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/thomas-jefferson-may-have-been-middle-eastern-12881.htmlThe article goes on to say, though, that the K2 could have been in Europe for a long time. In the end we just don't know. I personally don't think that it would be that big of a deal if, say, TJ had a Middle Eastern great-great-grandparent or what not. In the end it's his views, which were quite European, which prevail to this day.
