Claim: Their sources: Koestler, Sand, Elhaik
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Koestler (1976) and Sand (2008, a Tel Aviv historian) argue Khazar ancestry; Elhaik found a Caucasus link. Behar et al., on 1,774 genomes, found no significant one. Disputed, not a consensus.
SOURCE
Behar 2013; Elhaik 2013 (Genome Biol Evol)
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