A focused population profile of Maku Azeris, their West Azerbaijani Iranian borderland background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Maku Azeris are Azerbaijani-speaking people from Maku in West Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran, close to the borders with Turkey, Armenia, and Nakhchivan.
Azerbaijani Turkish and Persian are important languages, while Kurdish, Turkish, Armenian, and other regional contacts may appear in the wider borderland setting. The Maku profile is especially useful for the Iranian Azerbaijan-eastern Anatolia interface.
As a genetic reference, Azeri Iran West Azerbaijan Maku is useful for comparison with Azeri Iran Ardabil, Azeri Turkey Kars, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Igdir, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, Azeri Iran Tehran, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Iran Zanjan, Turkish Igdir, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Khamseh Turkic, and Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, Azeri Iran West Azerbaijan Maku is closest to Azeri Iran Ardabil, Azeri Turkey Kars, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Igdir, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, Azeri Iran Tehran, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Iran Zanjan, Turkish Igdir, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan. The result places Maku Azeris in a northwestern Iranian, eastern Anatolian, and South Caucasus borderland space.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Maku Azeri ancestry is best interpreted as West Azerbaijani Iranian and borderland Azeri, close to Ardabil, Kars, Igdir, Aghjabadi, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, Tehran and Zanjan Azeris, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan.
The heatmap should emphasize Maku, West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Kars, Igdir, Nakhchivan, Armenia's borderlands, Aghjabadi, Zanjan, Tehran Azeri communities, and northwestern Iran.
Yes. Azeri Turkey Kars and Azeri Turkey Igdir are among the closest matches.
Yes. Ardabil and Zanjan appear in the close-match list, with Ardabil being the closest.
Maku is in a mixed borderland zone where Azeri and Kurdish-related regional ancestry can overlap.
