context: Abu el-Haj argues that genomics and the mapping of lineages and clusters liberates "the new racial science from the older one by disentangling ancestry from culture and capacity."[citation needed] As an example, she refers to recent work by Hammer et al., which aimed to test the claim that present-day Jews are more closely related to one another than to neighbouring non-Jewish populations. Hammer et al. found that the degree of genetic similarity among Jews shifted depending on the locus investigated, and suggested that this was the result of natural selection acting on particular loci. They focused on the non-recombining Y-chromosome to "circumvent some of the complications associated with selection".
question: (খ) সম্প্রতি, হাতুড়ি ও অন্যেরা কোন দলের সঙ্গে বর্তমান দিনের যিহুদিদের কতটা ঘনিষ্ঠ সম্পর্ক রয়েছে, সেই বিষয়ে কোন দাবি রয়েছে, তা পরীক্ষা করার চেষ্টা করেছিল?
answers: neighbouring non-Jewish populations