Iranic DNA

This subclade can be considered a Semitic branch of Haplogroup J-P58. The origin of this Haplogroup among Azerbaijanis could be linked to Levant or mesopotamian related groups and in some cases related to Arab invasions.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇹🇷⚱️Bronze Age Anatolia (1736 - 1541 BCE)
🇮🇷⚱️Bronze Age Dinkha Tepe (2000 - 1000 BCE)
🇯🇴⚱️Bronze Age Jordan (1493 - 1304 BCE)
🇯🇴⚱️Bronze Age Jordan (1428 - 1290 BCE)
🇯🇴⚱️Bronze Age Jordan (1425 - 1284 BCE)
🇯🇴⚱️Bronze Age Jordan (1550 - 1150 BCE)
🇮🇶⚱️Bronze Age Iraq (1500 - 1200 BCE)

🧬Autosomal

- Broze Age:
• 50.8% Mesopotamian like
• 25.5% Oxus Civilization
• 20.8% Total steppe (used as Proto-Indo-Iranic like central steppe MLBA + WSHG like central steppe EMBA + Proto-Armenian like western steppe MBA)
• 2.9% Northeast Asian


- Stone Age:
• 35.3% Anatolian Neolithic Farmer
• 30.5% Iran Neolithic Farmer
• 11.7% Eastern Hunter-Gatherer
• 11.4% Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer
• 8.4% Natufian Hunter-Gatherer
• 2.7% Northeast Asian Neolithic

🧬Closest populations

- Modern: Kurmanji Kurds
- Ancient: Bronze and Iron Age Mannaean like samples from northwest Iran

🧬Haplogroups

- Y-DNA:
• ISOGG: T1a1a1b2b
• SNP: Z709
• TMRCA: 5900 BCE
• Most likely connections: Late Neolithic Levant and Anatolia

🗂 Models

This subclade can be considered a Zagrosian Neolithic Farmer branch of haplogroup J2. The origin of this haplogroup among Khorasani Persians is mostly related to Bronze Age Pre-Aryan Central Asian-related populations such as BMAC and IGW, which were most likely carried by Avestan-related groups into Iran.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇮🇷⚱️Tepe Hissar (3640 - 3518 BCE)
🇮🇷⚱️Tepe Hissar (2575 - 2350 BCE)
🇮🇷⚱️Shahr-i Sokhta (3200 - 1900 BCE)
🇺🇿⚱️Neolithic Bustan (3332 - 2937 BCE)
🇺🇿⚱️Sappali (2016 - 1830 BCE)
🇰🇬⚱️Aigyrzhal (2122 - 1926 BCE)
🇰🇿⚱️Taldysay (1600 - 1400 BCE)
🇵🇰⚱️Butkara (1000 - 800 BCE)
🇺🇦⚱️Western Scythian (755 - 414 BCE)

- Sample size: 306
- Most common haplogroups: R (n=88, 28.7%), J (n=80, 26.2%)

📚Sources:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399854

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10363161

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3799995

bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-024-10217-1

familytreedna.com

yfull.com/tree

theytree.com/country/Iran

uruqtree.com/tree

and secret samples

This subclade belongs to the Early Bronze Age of the Middle East. The presence of this subclade among Kurds most likely originates from Pre-Iranic Zagrosian/Mesopotamian related groups or in some cases from BMAC, which later formed into Iranic-related populations.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇷🇺⚱️Eneolithic Tsarskaya (3700 - 3000 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Bronze Age Ovaören (3000 - 2500 BCE)
🇮🇶⚱️Bronze Age Bakr Awa (2350 - 1800 BCE)
🇬🇪⚱️Medieval Mukhatgverdi (400 - 800 CE)
🇧🇪⚱️Medieval Sint-Truiden (1000 - 1286 CE)
🇨🇳⚱️Medieval Junmachanyilian (1308 - 1435 CE)

This subclade can be considered a Paleo-Balkan branch of the E-M35 haplogroup. The presence of this haplogroup among Persians of Khorasan could be linked to antiquity and the Hellenistic era during Alexander's conquest of Persia, or to more recent historical exchanges, such as traders or migrations from Anatolian- or Caucasian-related populations.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇺🇦⚱️Hallstatt (996 - 831 BCE)
🇧🇬⚱️Iron Age Balkan (1100 - 500 BCE)
🇧🇬⚱️Daco-Thracian (800–700 BCE)

R-M269 can be considered a Western Steppe-related branch of R-P297. The origin of this clade among Persians can be related to Iranic migrations from Central Asia, and in some cases, it could originate from Caucasus-related migrations during the Bronze Age.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇷🇺⚱️EN Steppe (3776 - 3652 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️EN Steppe (3705 - 3533 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️Yamnaya (3346 - 3101 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️Yamnaya (3333 - 3028 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️Yamnaya (3321 - 2931 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️Yamnaya (3339 - 2916 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️Yamnaya (3335 - 2912 BCE
🇷🇺⚱️Afanasievo (3330 - 2933 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️Afanasievo (3323 - 2935 BCE)

This subclade can be considered an Anatolian Neolithic Farmer branch of haplogroup G. The origin of this haplogroup among this individual could originate from Pre-Iranic Zagrosian groups or the BMAC culture, which was later carried by Iranic-speaking groups into Iran, or, in some cases, through later migrations from Anatolia.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (8300 - 7952 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (8212 - 7952 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (7945 - 7890 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (7100 - 6700 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (6822 - 6597 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (6850 - 6500 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (6700 - 6500 BCE)

- Sample size: 67
- Most common haplogroup: R (n=23, 34.3%)

📚Sources:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399854

And personal samples

This subclade can be considered an Anatolian Neolithic Farmer branch of haplogroup T. The origin of this haplogroup among this individual is most likely related to BMAC/IGW-related groups, which could later have become associated with Pre-Iranic populations or later Iranic-speaking migration groups into Iran.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇹🇷⚱️Neolithic Anatolia (6700 - 6500 BCE)
🇷🇴⚱️Gumelnița (4586 - 4448 BCE)
🇷🇺⚱️Maykop (3617 - 2885 BCE)
🇮🇷⚱️ShahTepe (3200 - 3100 BCE)
🇮🇷⚱️Tepe Hissar (2916 - 2876 BCE)
🇬🇷⚱️Minoan Greece (2400 - 1800 BCE)

This subclade can be considered a Semitic branch of haplogroup J1. The origin of this subclade among the individual is most likely related to the Arab conquests or a recent Arabic/seyyed (depending on the subclade) background.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇵🇸⚱️Roman Levant (200–150 BCE)
🇵🇸⚱️Gothic Levant (320 - 375 CE)
🇸🇾‍⚱️Umayyad Syria (666 - 768 CE)
🇸🇾‍⚱️Medieval Syrian (680 - 828 CE)
🇭🇷⚱️Medieval Croatian (778 - 885 CE)

This subclade can be considered a Zagrosian Neolithic Farmer branch of haplogroup J-M410. The origin of this haplogroup among Persians can originate from Pre-Iranic Zagrosian or BMAC-related populations through later Iranic migrations to Iran, and in very rare cases through Medieval Turkic populations such as Oghuz Turks.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇮🇹⚱️Neolithic Italy (5323 - 5216 BCE)
🇮🇹⚱️VBQ culture (4445 - 4261 BCE)
🇹🇲⚱️Anau culture (3500 - 2800 BCE)
🇹🇲⚱️Gonur Tepe (2300 - 2200 BCE)
🇮🇷⚱️Shahr-i Sokhta (2700 - 2600 BCE)
🇵🇸⚱️Tel Megiddo (1628 - 1406 BCE)
🇬🇷⚱️Helladic Greece (1700 - 1200 BCE)

This subclade can be considered a Zagrosian Neolithic Farmer branch of haplogroup J-L26. The origin of this subclade among this individual is most likely related to Pre-Iranic migrations, such as Elamite and Mesopotamian-related populations.

📜 Paleo DNA samples:
🇹🇷⚱️Chalcolithic Anatolia (3508-3354 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️BA ArslanTepe (2469-2298 BCE)
🇹🇷⚱️Alalakh (1896-1746 BCE)
🇬🇷⚱️Minoan (2279-2063 BCE)
🇵🇸⚱️Kiriath-jearim (705-409 BCE)