A focused population profile of Tabriz Azeris, their East Azerbaijani and northwestern Iranian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Tabriz Azeris are Azerbaijani-speaking people from Tabriz and East Azerbaijan Province in northwestern Iran. Tabriz has long been a major urban center linking Iranian Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, Anatolia, and the Iranian Plateau.
Azerbaijani Turkish and Persian are both important, while local urban family histories may also connect Ardabil, Zanjan, Tehran, the Republic of Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey.
As a genetic reference, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz is useful for comparison with Azeri Iran Tehran, Khamseh Turkic, Azeri Iran Ardabil, Azeri Iran Zanjan, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Azeri Turkey Kars, Azeri Turkey Ardahan, Turkish Iğdır, and Azeri Turkey Iğdır.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz is Azeri Iran Tehran. Other nearby references include Khamseh Turkic, Azeri Iran Ardabil, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Mianeh, and Azeri Iran Zanjan. This gives the Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz 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. Tabriz Azeri ancestry is best interpreted as Iranian Azerbaijani and northwestern Iranian, close to Tehran Azeris, Ardabil, Zanjan, Khamseh Turkic, Aghjabadi, Kars, Ardahan, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan.
The heatmap should emphasize Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, Tehran Azeri communities, Iranian Azerbaijan, Aghjabadi, Kars, Ardahan, Igdir, and the wider South Caucasus-Iran corridor.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Azeri Iran Tehran. Other nearby references include Khamseh Turkic, Azeri Iran Ardabil, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Mianeh, and Azeri Iran Zanjan.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Azeri Iran Tehran is the closest listed match to the Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz average after removing Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
