A focused population profile of Turks from Adana, their southern Anatolian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Adana is a major city and province in southern Turkey, located in the Cilicia plain near the eastern Mediterranean. The region has long connected central Anatolia, the Taurus Mountains, northern Syria, and the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Turkish is the main language, while the broader region has also been shaped by historical Armenian, Arab, Kurdish, Greek, and other communities. A Turkish Adana reference should therefore be read as a southern Anatolian profile rather than a single national average for all Turks.
In genetic comparisons, Adana is useful because southern Anatolia can sit between central Anatolian, eastern Mediterranean, Caucasus, and northern Levantine contexts.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Turkish Adana is Turkish Afyonkarahisar Northeast. Other nearby references include Turkish Hatay, Turkish Kırıkkale, Turkish Kırşehir, and Turkish Osmaniye. This gives the Turkish Adana profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry model gives deep component proportions, while the closest-match table shows modern similarity. Turkish Adana is best read as a southern Anatolian Turkish reference, with strong links to other Turkish regional averages.
The heatmap should emphasize Anatolia, especially southern and central Turkish references, with nearby affinity toward Hatay, Osmaniye, and broader eastern Mediterranean zones.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Turkish Afyonkarahisar Northeast. Other nearby references include Turkish Hatay, Turkish Kırıkkale, Turkish Kırşehir, and Turkish Osmaniye.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Turkish Afyonkarahisar Northeast is the closest listed match to the Turkish Adana average after removing Turkish Adana itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Turkish Adana G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
