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 Igdir, Azeri Turkey Ardahan, Azeri Azerbaijan Qazax, Azeri Iran Zanjan, Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan, and Azeri Azerbaijan Gabala.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, Azeri Turkey Kars is closest to broad Azeri Iran, Azeri Georgia, Azeri Iran Ardabil, broad Azeri Azerbaijan, Azeri Azerbaijan Aghjabadi, Azeri Turkey Igdir, Azeri Turkey Ardahan, Azeri Azerbaijan Qazax, Azeri Iran Zanjan, and Kurdish Kurmanji Azerbaijan. The result places Kars Azeris in a transborder Azeri cluster linking northeastern Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Iranian Azerbaijan.
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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.
Yes. Azeri Georgia is one of the closest matches in this comparison.
Yes. Broad Azeri Iran and Azeri Iran Ardabil are among the closest matches.
They are very close regional references, with Igdir and Ardahan both appearing near the top of the match list.
