A focused population profile of Georgians from Tbilisi, their South Caucasus background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Georgians from Tbilisi are part of the Georgian population of the South Caucasus. Tbilisi is Georgia's capital and largest city, historically positioned between eastern Georgia, western Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the North Caucasus, Iran, Anatolia, and the Black Sea world.
Georgian is a Kartvelian language written in its own script. It is unrelated to Indo-European, Turkic, or Semitic languages and forms part of the wider Kartvelian family alongside Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan.
As a genetic reference, Georgian Tbilisi should be read as an urban Georgian and South Caucasus profile. It is useful for comparison with western Georgian, Mingrelian, Kartlian, Kakhetian, Meskhian, and other Georgian regional references.
In the World Genetics modern G25 table, Georgian Tbilisi is closest to Mingrelian Nokalakevi, Mingrelian Jgali, Mingrelian Zugdidi, Mingrelian Lia, Mingrelian Senaki, Mingrelian Tsalenjikha, Mingrelian Nosiri, and Georgian West. The closest matches lean strongly toward western Georgian and Mingrelian references.
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The ancestry model gives deep component proportions, while the closest matches show the modern context. Georgian Tbilisi clusters inside a South Caucasus and Kartvelian reference space, with western Georgian and Mingrelian entries especially close in this dataset.
The heatmap should emphasize Georgia and the South Caucasus, especially western Georgian and Mingrelian reference zones alongside Tbilisi's broader urban Georgian context.
Yes. Several Mingrelian references are among the closest matches to Georgian Tbilisi in this World Genetics comparison.
Yes. Georgian Tbilisi sits in a South Caucasus context, especially close to Georgian and Mingrelian regional references.
Georgians are part of the South Caucasus genetic landscape, but this specific Tbilisi reference is closest first to Georgian and Mingrelian regional entries.
