A focused population profile of Armenians from Mardin, their northern Mesopotamian Armenian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Armenians from Mardin come from a historic city and region of northern Mesopotamia near Tur Abdin, Diyarbakir, Urfa, and the Syrian border. Mardin has long been a meeting point of Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac, Kurdish, Arab, Turkish, and other communities.
Armenian was historically part of the region's Christian community landscape, while Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, and diaspora languages may also appear in family histories. The current reference is very small and should be read with nearby Armenian and Assyrian pages.
As a genetic reference, Armenian Mardin is useful for comparison with Armenian Urfa, Assyrian Armenia, Armenian Sasun, Armenian Lebanon, Armenian Mush, Armenian Yerevan, Armenian Ararat, Armenian Alashkert, Assyrian Tur Abdin, and Armenian Van.
In the World Genetics modern G25 table, Armenian Mardin is closest to Armenian Urfa, Assyrian Armenia, Armenian Sasun, Armenian Lebanon, Armenian Mush, Armenian Yerevan, Armenian Ararat, Armenian Alashkert, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox Turkey Tur Abdin, and Armenian Van. The result places Mardin in a northern Mesopotamian Armenian and neighboring Assyrian comparison space.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Armenian Mardin is best interpreted as a northern Mesopotamian Armenian profile, close to Urfa, Sasun, Mush, Ararat, Alashkert, Van, Lebanese Armenian, and Assyrian Armenia/Tur Abdin references.
The heatmap should emphasize Mardin, Tur Abdin, Urfa, Sasun, Mush, Ararat, Alashkert, Van, Diyarbakir, Lebanon's Armenian diaspora, and northern Mesopotamia.
Assyrian Armenia and Assyrian Tur Abdin appear among the closest matches, reflecting Mardin's northern Mesopotamian Christian context.
Urfa and Mardin are both southeastern Anatolian/northern Mesopotamian Armenian references, so they sit close in G25 space.
Yes. The current reference has a very small sample size, so it should be compared with nearby Armenian and Assyrian pages.
