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 Iğdır, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, Azeri Iran Tehran, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Iran Zanjan, Turkish Iğdır, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Khamseh Turkic, and Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Azeri Iran West Azerbaijan Maku is Azeri Iran Ardabil. Other nearby references include Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Iğdır, Azeri Iran, and Azeri Azerbaijan. This gives the Azeri Iran West Azerbaijan Maku 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. 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.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Azeri Iran Ardabil. Other nearby references include Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Iğdır, Azeri Iran, and Azeri Azerbaijan.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Azeri Iran Ardabil is the closest listed match to the Azeri Iran West Azerbaijan Maku average after removing Azeri Iran West Azerbaijan Maku itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Azeri Iran West Azerbaijan Maku G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
