The recent Caucasus paper finally features groups such as the Assyrians and Kurds in its ADMIXTURE.
Here's the paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/16/322347
Here's a graph:
https://www.biorxiv.org/highwire/filestream/98916/field_highwire_adjunct_files/2/322347-3.pdf
As expected, the Assyrians and Kurds are effectively the same as Armenians, who have significant amounts of Iranian and Caucasian ancestry. This goes in line with an upcoming paper on Arslantepe (an extension of North Mesopotamian civilization) noting how the sampled bodies had Iranian and Caucasian admixture that samples from Anatolia civilization proper didn't.
Here's the paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/16/322347
Here's a graph:
https://www.biorxiv.org/highwire/filestream/98916/field_highwire_adjunct_files/2/322347-3.pdf
As expected, the Assyrians and Kurds are effectively the same as Armenians, who have significant amounts of Iranian and Caucasian ancestry. This goes in line with an upcoming paper on Arslantepe (an extension of North Mesopotamian civilization) noting how the sampled bodies had Iranian and Caucasian admixture that samples from Anatolia civilization proper didn't.
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