A focused population profile of Chaldean Catholic Assyrians from Iraq, their northern Mesopotamian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Chaldean Catholic Assyrians from Iraq are part of the wider Assyrian people of northern Mesopotamia, with communities historically connected to Mosul, Nineveh, the Nineveh Plains, Baghdad, Hakkari, Urmia, and diaspora centers. The Chaldean Catholic identity is a church affiliation within the broader Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Christian landscape.
Neo-Aramaic varieties are central to community identity, while Arabic, Kurdish, and diaspora languages are also used depending on region and migration history. This reference is one of the key Iraqi Assyrian Christian profiles in the database.
As a genetic reference, Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq is useful for comparison with Assyrian Syriac Orthodox/Catholic Iraq, Assyrian Turkey Hakkâri, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox Turkey Tur Abdin, Assyrian Iraq, Assyrian Iran Urmia, Georgian Jew, Assyrian Armenia, Armenian Tigranakert Diyarbakir, Armenian Lebanon, and Armenian Urfa.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq is Assyrian Syriac Orthodox/Catholic Iraq. Other nearby references include Assyrian Turkey Hakkâri, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox Syria, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox Turkey Tur Abdin, and Assyrian Iraq. This gives the Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Chaldean Catholic Assyrian Iraq is best interpreted as an Iraqi/northern Mesopotamian Assyrian profile, close to Syriac Orthodox/Catholic Assyrian, Hakkari, Tur Abdin, Urmia, Assyrian Armenia, and nearby Armenian Christian references.
The heatmap should emphasize northern Iraq, Nineveh, Mosul, the Nineveh Plains, Hakkari, Tur Abdin, Urmia, Armenia, Tigranakert/Diyarbakir, Urfa, Lebanon's Armenian diaspora, and northern Mesopotamia.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Assyrian Syriac Orthodox/Catholic Iraq. Other nearby references include Assyrian Turkey Hakkâri, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox Syria, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox Turkey Tur Abdin, and Assyrian Iraq.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox/Catholic Iraq is the closest listed match to the Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq average after removing Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
