Alashkert Armenians

Alashkert Armenians

Alashkert Armenians display quite remarkable genetic characteristics. In FST analyses, they appear to be the closest to three geographically distant Armenian groups: Artsakh, Sasun, and Hamshen Armenians.

It is difficult to determine at this stage whether this pattern reflects their central or “average” position within Armenian regional genetic diversity, or whether it has deeper historical causes.

It should also be noted that a negative FST value effectively means zero, indicating the absence of any meaningful genetic distance between the compared populations.