 Thirty researchers from nine countries—including the researchers who provided the data Elhaik analyzed—pooled their data to create "the largest data set available to date for assessment of Ashkenazi Jewish genetic origins" to formulate a response to Elhaik's hypothesis.They contradicted Elhaik's hypothesis and called Elhaik's procedural assumption that the Armenians and Georgians of the South Caucasus region could serve as appropriate proxies for Khazar descendants "problematic" and "particularly poor," concluding their analysis as follows