A focused population profile of Punjabis from Lahore, their northwestern South Asian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Punjabis from Lahore are part of the wider Punjabi population of the Punjab region, split today between Pakistan and India. Lahore is one of Punjab's major historic cities and has long been a center of language, trade, religion, education, and politics in northwestern South Asia.
Punjabi is the regional language, while Urdu is widely used in education, media, administration, and national life in Pakistan. Lahore's population includes many biradari, caste, clan, urban, and regional backgrounds, so the reference should be read as a city-region average rather than a single community label.
As a genetic reference, Punjabi Lahore is useful for comparing Pakistani Punjabi results with Punjabi Sikh, Punjabi Hindu, Punjabi Rajput, Khatri, Kamboj, Awan, Gujar, and wider North Indian or Pakistani references.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Punjabi Lahore is Punjabi Ramgarhia Tarkhan Sikh. Other nearby references include Punjabi Rajput, Punjabi Hindu India, Punjabi Rajput Potohar, and Kashmiri Pandit. This gives the Punjabi Lahore profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while the closest-match table shows modern similarity. Punjabi Lahore should be interpreted as a northwestern South Asian reference, but this specific G25 table places it near several Indian Brahmin and Kshatriya-type averages, so the related Punjabi regional pages are important context.
The heatmap should emphasize northwestern South Asia and northern India, while also reflecting the South Asian reference averages that appear nearest in the closest-match table.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Punjabi Ramgarhia Tarkhan Sikh. Other nearby references include Punjabi Rajput, Punjabi Hindu India, Punjabi Rajput Potohar, and Kashmiri Pandit.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Punjabi Ramgarhia Tarkhan Sikh is the closest listed match to the Punjabi Lahore average after removing Punjabi Lahore itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Punjabi Lahore G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
