A focused population profile of Zanjan Azeris, their northwestern Iranian Azeri background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Zanjan Azeris are Azerbaijani-speaking people from Zanjan Province in northwestern Iran, a region between Iranian Azerbaijan, the central Iranian Plateau, Kurdistan-adjacent areas, and Tehran-facing migration routes.
Azerbaijani Turkish and Persian are both important, while regional Iranian languages may also appear in the wider setting. Zanjan is useful for understanding Iranian Azeri variation away from the immediate South Caucasus border.
As a genetic reference, Azeri Iran Zanjan is useful for comparison with Azeri Iran Ardabil, broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Khamseh Turkic, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, Azeri Turkey Kars, Azeri Iran East Azerbaijan Tabriz, Azeri Iran Tehran, Turkish Iฤdฤฑr, Azeri Turkey Ardahan, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, and Azeri Azerbaijan Karabakh.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Azeri Iran Zanjan is Azeri Iran Ardabil. Other nearby references include Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Khamseh Turkic, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan. This gives the Azeri Iran Zanjan 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. Zanjan Azeri ancestry is best interpreted as Iranian Azerbaijani, close to Ardabil, broad Azeri Iran, Tabriz, Tehran Azeris, Khamseh Turkic, Aghjabadi, Kars, Ardahan, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan.
The heatmap should emphasize Zanjan, Ardabil, Tabriz, Tehran Azeri communities, Iranian Azerbaijan, Aghjabadi, Kars, Ardahan, Igdir, and the northwestern Iranian plateau.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Azeri Iran Ardabil. Other nearby references include Azeri Iran, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Khamseh Turkic, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Azeri Iran Ardabil is the closest listed match to the Azeri Iran Zanjan average after removing Azeri Iran Zanjan itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Azeri Iran Zanjan G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
