A focused population profile of Tehran Azeris, their Iranian Azeri urban background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Tehran Azeris are Azerbaijani-speaking people and families in Iran's capital whose roots often connect to Iranian Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, Tabriz, and wider northwestern Iranian migration into Tehran.
Azerbaijani Turkish and Persian are both important in Tehran Azeri communities. Because Tehran is a major urban center, this profile should be read as an Iranian Azeri urban reference rather than a single village or province.
As a genetic reference, Azeri Iran Tehran is useful for comparison with Khamseh Turkic, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz, Azeri Iran Ardabil, Azeri Iran Zanjan, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Kars, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Kurdish Iran Kermanshah, Tat Dagestan Nyugdi, and Azeri Turkey Ardahan.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, Azeri Iran Tehran is closest to Khamseh Turkic, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz, Azeri Iran Ardabil, Azeri Iran Zanjan, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Kars, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Kurdish Iran Kermanshah, and Tat Dagestan Nyugdi. The result places Tehran Azeris in an Iranian Azeri and northwestern Iranian comparison space.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Tehran Azeri ancestry is best interpreted as urban Iranian Azeri, close to Tabriz, Ardabil, Zanjan, Khamseh Turkic, broad Azeri Iran, and nearby Iranian/Caucasus-adjacent references.
The heatmap should emphasize Tehran, Iranian Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Ardabil, Zanjan, Khamseh Turkic regions, Aghjabadi, Kars, and the broader Iranian Plateau-South Caucasus corridor.
Yes. Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz is one of the closest matches.
Khamseh Turkic shares Iranian Turkic-speaking ancestry patterns with Iranian Azeri references, placing it very close in this G25 comparison.
No. This is an Azeri reference from Tehran, not a general Persian or Tehran-wide population profile.
