A focused population profile of Kars Azeris, their northeastern Anatolian and South Caucasus borderland background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Kars Azeris are Azerbaijani-speaking communities associated with Kars in northeastern Turkey, a borderland between eastern Anatolia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and northwestern Iran.
Azerbaijani Turkish and Turkish are important languages, while Russian, Armenian, Georgian, Kurdish, and other regional languages may appear in family histories because of the area's complex imperial and borderland past.
As a genetic reference, Azeri Turkey Kars is useful for comparison with broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Georgia, Azeri Iran Ardabil, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Iğdır, Azeri Turkey Ardahan, Azeri Azerbaijan Qazax, Azeri Iran Zanjan, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, and Azeri Azerbaijan Gabala.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Azeri Turkey Kars is Azeri Georgia. Other nearby references include Azeri Azerbaijan Qazax, Azeri Iran Ardabil, Karapapakh Turkey Kars, and Azeri Iran. This gives the Azeri Turkey Kars 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. Kars Azeri ancestry is best interpreted as northeastern Anatolian and South Caucasus Azeri, close to Iranian Azeris, Georgian Azeris, Igdir and Ardahan Azeris, Qazax, Aghjabadi, and neighboring Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan.
The heatmap should emphasize Kars, Igdir, Ardahan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, Aghjabadi, Qazax, and the South Caucasus-Iran-eastern Anatolia corridor.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Azeri Georgia. Other nearby references include Azeri Azerbaijan Qazax, Azeri Iran Ardabil, Karapapakh Turkey Kars, and Azeri Iran.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Azeri Georgia is the closest listed match to the Azeri Turkey Kars average after removing Azeri Turkey Kars itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Azeri Turkey Kars G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
