Kurd Genetics

Population replacements in Armenia and Iran over the past 7000 years

Admixture Calculators, Analysis, Anatolia Genetics, Ancestral South Indian, Armenian Genetics, Central Asian Genetics, East Asian Gene Flow, Genotyping, Iran Genetics, Iraq Genetics, Iron Age Genetics, Kurd DNA, Kurd Genetics, Medes Kurds, Neque, New Ancestry Calculator, Southern Arc Genetics, Turk DNA, Turkey Genetics, Xinjiang Genetics / By

ABSTRACT We present genetic evidence of multiple demographic changes in Armenia and western Iran over the past 7000 years. By about 3000 years ago descendants of the 7000-year-old Chalcolithic Zagrosian herders, hereinafter referred to as Iran-CHL, along with their likely Elamo-Dravidian languages were gradually replaced by invading “Aryan” warriors from around the ancient Ariana (Airyanem …

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The PEOPLING OF ANATOLIA OVER THE PAST 2000 YEARS

Analysis, Anatolia Genetics, Armenian Genetics, Central Asian Genetics, East Asian Gene Flow, Genotyping, Iran Genetics, Iraq Genetics, Iron Age Genetics, Kurd DNA, Kurd Genetics, Medes Kurds, Southern Arc Genetics, Turk DNA, Turkey Genetics, Uncategorized, Xinjiang Genetics / By

ABSTRACT DNA from hundreds of ancient humans remains spanning the last 7000 years has been sequenced over the past few years in the “Southern Arc” region of West Asia and surrounds. Using DNA we here investigate the demographic changes that occurred over the past 2000 years in the Anatolia region as they pertain to the …

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Post Iron Age Introduction of Y-DNA R1a R-Z94 and East Asian Ancestry into Kurdistan, North Iran, and Turkey with the Parthians and Scythians

Anatolia Genetics, Armenian Genetics, Central Asian Genetics, Genotyping, Iran Genetics, Iraq Genetics, Iron Age Genetics, Kurd DNA, Kurd Genetics, Medes Kurds, Southern Arc Genetics, Turk DNA, Turkey Genetics, Xinjiang Genetics / By

Abstract The recent publication of numerous DNA sequences from ancient humans spanning the Neolithic to the Iron-Age and Medieval time frames from the Anatolia, Caucasus, and Iran regions has greatly furthered our understanding of the formation of modern ethnic groups such as Armenians, Kurds, Persians, and Turks, which we define as our study populations. Our …

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Indo-Europeanization of Iran & Kurdistan – The genetic substructure of the Indo-Iranian invaders

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Sometime between the late Bronze-Age and the early Iron-Age, Iran experienced a linguistic and population replacement. Approximately 2700 years ago, the Indo-Iranian Medes established the Median empire which stretched from north-west Pakistan westwards to Turkey, and thereby brought genetic, linguistic, as well as ideological changes to Iran. Although not much is known about this period …

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Impact of the Iron Age Saka and Scythians on the demography of Kurds

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ABSTRACT The flood of recently sequenced ancient DNA has tremendously increased our understanding of demography of various Eurasian modern populations. Thanks to the recently sequenced genomes in Damgaard et al, Narasimhan et al, Olaide et al, Lazaridis et al, and Mathieson et al, and the suite of tools within Admixtools, detailed in Patterson et al  …

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Elevated Eurasian Steppe Ancestry in Kurds

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Here I investigate how much more genetic drift Kurds share with various ancient Eurasian Steppe samples, in comparison with some of their geographic neighbors. I do this formally using D-Statistics (Dstats) from ADMIXTOOLS1, a software bundle, readily available from the Reich Labs website at Harvard University. ADMIXTOOLS has been fully described in Patterson et al, …

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