A focused population profile of Assyrians from Iraq, their northern Mesopotamian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Assyrians are an indigenous Christian people of northern Mesopotamia with historical roots around northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, and northwestern Iran. Iraqi Assyrians are especially associated with Nineveh, Mosul, the Nineveh Plains, and diaspora communities.
Modern Assyrian identity is strongly linked to Neo-Aramaic/Syriac language traditions and Syriac Christian churches, including the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, and Syriac Catholic communities.
An Assyrian Iraq genetic reference should be read as a northern Mesopotamian and Assyrian Christian community profile. It is useful for comparison with Assyrian Turkey Hakkâri, Chaldean Catholic Iraqi Assyrians, Mandaeans, Mountain Jews, and Iraqi Arab references.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Assyrian Iraq is Assyrian Turkey Hakkâri. Other nearby references include Mountain Jew Dagestan, Mountain Jew Azerbaijan, Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq, and Georgian Jew. This gives the Assyrian Iraq profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry breakdown gives a deep component fit, while closest matches show that Assyrian Iraq clusters with Assyrian, Chaldean, Mandaean, and neighboring West Asian minority references rather than with a broad Iraqi Arab average.
The heatmap should emphasize northern Iraq, northern Mesopotamia, southeastern Turkey, and nearby West Asian reference zones connected with Assyrian and related minority populations.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Assyrian Turkey Hakkâri. Other nearby references include Mountain Jew Dagestan, Mountain Jew Azerbaijan, Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Iraq, and Georgian Jew.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Assyrian Turkey Hakkâri is the closest listed match to the Assyrian Iraq average after removing Assyrian Iraq itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Assyrian Iraq G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
