We have discussed recently autosomes.

 We have discussed recently autosomes. So let's compare some modern and ancient populations with a very simple tool called vahaduo.

Target: Armenian

Distance: 1.5158% / 0.01515807

60.4 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C

17.4 Anatolia_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N

14.0 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Talin

7.0 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara

1.2 RUS_Darkveti-Meshoko_En

Target: Kurdish

Distance: 1.6204% / 0.01620444

45.8 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C

25.8 TKM_Gonur1_BA

17.2 Anatolia_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N

11.2 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara

Target: Georgian_Imer

Distance: 2.3262% / 0.02326166

64.4 RUS_Darkveti-Meshoko_En

23.0 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Talin

12.6 Anatolia_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N

Target: Assyrian

Distance: 1.8124% / 0.01812432

77.8 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C

14.0 Anatolia_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N

7.0 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara

1.2 TKM_Gonur1_BA

And now some ancient pops.

Target: ARM_LBA (Etiuni)

Distance: 2.2611% / 0.02261111

36.2 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C

29.4 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara

20.8 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Talin

7.8 Anatolia_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N

5.8 RUS_Darkveti-Meshoko_En

Target: ARM_Lchashen (Etiuni)

Distance: 2.1067% / 0.02106658

46.8 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C

26.2 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara

22.4 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Talin

2.4 Anatolia_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N

2.2 RUS_Darkveti-Meshoko_En

Target: IRN_Hasanlu_IA

Distance: 2.7997% / 0.02799672

58.6 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C

17.8 TKM_Gonur1_BA

10.0 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara

8.6 Anatolia_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N

5.0 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Talin

As one can see despite broad similarities those nations are different. Georgians do prefer Darkveti Meshoko a Caucasian culture. While the main difference between Kurds and Armenians is the strong presence of Central Asian BMAC ancestry among Kurds which is absent among Armenians. In usual ADMIXTURE runs this BMAC ancestry is visible as ASI. And this is the most surprising result of DNA. All talks of massive Iranian ancestry in Armenia are exaggerated!

Now You may say but Armenians have a lot of Iran Hajji Firus Chl. Well that is true but this a 7000 Neolithic farmer sample that came from Fertile Crescent from West (modern Iraqi Kurdistan). That is why Armenians and Assyrians have the highest affinity to this type of ancestry.