Are the Iranian people genetically/phenotypically closer to Arabs, Turks or Caucasians?

[Impaler]

Iranian average:

Distance to: Iranian
8.53245568 Talysh_Azerbaijan
10.11762324 Turkmen_Iraq
12.65096834 Azerbaijani
13.42201177 Azerbaijani_Turkey
14.80472897 Uzbekistan_Jews
15.11686806 Turk_Southeast
16.02548907 Turkmens
16.19929628 Azerbaijani_Dagestan
17.20364787 Turk_East
18.18196634 Assyrian
18.43986714 Armenian_East
18.59616627 Turk_Central_East
19.02622664 Turk_South
20.11751724 Turk_Central_Black_Sea
20.31670987 Armenian_West
20.33690242 Turk_Anatolia
20.41135713 Turk_Central_West
20.87151168 Azerbaijan_Jews
21.42648828 Ingush
21.48895530 Turk_Ahiska
21.57637597 Assyrian
21.86246555 Georgia_Jews
22.37024810 Yoruk
22.39691050 Turk_Southwest
22.71089166 Turk_West_BlackSea

[Demhat]

They are phenotypically closer to whatever makes you more happy.

I expect people by now to know to who they are closest pheno and genotypically and if these kind of threads are started they usually have other agendas behind it.

[Demhat]

And if this is really a genuine question, the answer is, Turkey, Caucasus and Mesopotamia. Outside of that to Afghans and Levantines.

[Kyp]

Between Turkey and Afghanistan imo

Southern regions maybe have some stronger Arabic and Indian influence

[Dr_Maul]

It depends on where you are from
Caspian Iranians are heavily mixed with Georgians, Circassians and Armenians since 17th century so they are heavy Caucasus shifted
Gulf Iranians are mixed with Arabs and Indians since like 1000 BC because of Trade route
Minorities like Azeris (Turk shifted) and others have their own genetic affiliations
For the average Persian (Central Iranian) I think they are similar to Turks minus the Turkic (east asian) and European (Greek or whatever) but its hard to say, because we have our own genetic category (South Central Asian/Gedrosia)

Here is my dodecad k12b (1/2 Persian 1/2 Gulf Persian) you can see my obvious Semitic shift
# Population Percent
1 Caucasus 35.41
2 Gedrosia 27.49
3 Southwest_Asian 13.75
4 Atlantic_Med 8.12
5 South_Asian 5.04
6 North_European 4.5
7 Northwest_African 3.36
8 Siberian 1.68
9 East_African 0.64

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Iranians (Behar) 4.75
2 Iranian (Dodecad) 6.48
3 Kurd (Dodecad) 6.85
4 Kurds (Yunusbayev) 8.48
5 Uzbekistan_Jews (Behar) 12.71
6 Turkmens (Yunusbayev) 14.89
7 Turks (Behar) 16.75
8 Iranian_Jews (Behar) 18.15
9 Azerbaijan_Jews (Behar) 18.39
10 Turkish (Dodecad) 18.78
11 Assyrian (Dodecad) 19.08
12 Iraq_Jews (Behar) 19.22
13 Georgia_Jews (Behar) 19.25
14 Lebanese (Behar) 19.76
15 Armenians_15 (Yunusbayev) 20.8
16 Syrians (Behar) 21.13
17 Armenian (Dodecad) 21.58
18 Kumyks (Yunusbayev) 21.95
19 Jordanians (Behar) 22.93
20 Druze (HGDP) 23.93

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 87.4% Iranians (Behar) + 12.6% Morocco_Jews (Behar) @ 2.49
2 93.2% Iranians (Behar) + 6.8% Moroccan (Dodecad) @ 2.56
3 92.2% Iranians (Behar) + 7.8% Algerian (Dodecad) @ 2.62
4 87.5% Iranians (Behar) + 12.5% Sephardic_Jews (Behar) @ 2.79
5 92.9% Iranians (Behar) + 7.1% Canarias (1000Genomes) @ 2.83
6 93.6% Iranians (Behar) + 6.4% Moroccans (Behar) @ 2.86
7 88.8% Iranians (Behar) + 11.2% Ashkenazi (Dodecad) @ 2.88
8 89% Iranians (Behar) + 11% Sicilian (Dodecad) @ 2.92
9 88.6% Iranians (Behar) + 11.4% Ashkenazy_Jews (Behar) @ 2.92
10 89% Iranians (Behar) + 11% S_Italian_Sicilian (Dodecad) @ 3.02
11 90.7% Iranians (Behar) + 9.3% C_Italian (Dodecad) @ 3.07
12 93.4% Iranians (Behar) + 6.6% Portuguese (Dodecad) @ 3.08
13 93.6% Iranians (Behar) + 6.4% Murcia (1000Genomes) @ 3.12
14 93.8% Iranians (Behar) + 6.2% Castilla_Y_Leon (1000Genomes) @ 3.15
15 93.6% Iranians (Behar) + 6.4% Galicia (1000Genomes) @ 3.16
16 93.5% Iranians (Behar) + 6.5% Extremadura (1000Genomes) @ 3.18
17 91.8% Iranians (Behar) + 8.2% TSI30 (Metspalu) @ 3.21
18 93.7% Iranians (Behar) + 6.3% Andalucia (1000Genomes) @ 3.22
19 93.6% Iranians (Behar) + 6.4% Baleares (1000Genomes) @ 3.22
20 91.6% Iranians (Behar) + 8.4% Tuscan (HGDP) @ 3.24

[Demhat]

It depends on where you are from
Caspian Iranians are heavily mixed with Georgians, Circassians and Armenians since 17th century so they are heavy Caucasus shifted
Gulf Iranians are mixed with Arabs and Indians since like 1000 BC because of Trade route
Minorities like Azeris (Turk shifted) and others have their own genetic affiliations
For the average Persian (Central Iranian) I think they are similar to Turks minus the Turkic (east asian) and European (Greek or whatever) but its hard to say, because we have our own genetic category (South Central Asian/Gedrosia)



True but I wouldn't call it Arabic admixture rather Semitic. South/Southwest Iranians have a little higher Levant_Neo type of admixture. The biggest outliers are some on the coastline living coastle Iranians who have some Indian, African, Arab traider admixture. And as a ethnic people the most divergent would be the Baluch in the South/Southeast of the country, who seem to be genetically more similar to their Balochi counterparts in Pakistan and to Afghans/Pashtuns.

For Iranians, it's first and foremost Caucasus, Anatolia, Mesopotamia. And than Afghan and Levant.