Georgians are genetically equidistant to Balochi and Romanians.

[Tomasso]

Genetic distance to Georgians (global25 calculator)


6.477 Armenian
6.844 Adygei
8.327 Iranian Lor
9.296 Turkish Adana
9.709 Iraqi Jew
11.851 Italian South
14.992 Bedouin_A
15.900 Romanian
16.874 Balochi
18.213 Afghan Pashtun
18.657 Hungarian
18.824 Egyptian
18.873 Yemenite Jew
20.813 Ukrainian
20.868 Sardinian
21.040 Polish
24.673 Latvian

[Tigranes]

So what?

[FinalFlash]

Genetic distance to Georgians (global25 calculator)


6.477 Armenian
6.844 Adygei
8.327 Iranian Lor
9.296 Turkish Adana
9.709 Iraqi Jew
11.851 Italian South
14.992 Bedouin_A
15.900 Romanian
16.874 Balochi
18.213 Afghan Pashtun
18.657 Hungarian
18.824 Egyptian
18.873 Yemenite Jew
20.813 Ukrainian
20.868 Sardinian
21.040 Polish
24.673 Latvian

Western or Eastern Georgians?

Also, they're still closer to Romanians(relatively speaking)

[Leto]

Western or Eastern Georgians?

Is there a big difference? Abkhazians for example are almost indistinguishable from Northwestern and Western Georgians.

[Tomasso]

So what?

They look far more like Romanians than Balochi. I thought they would have been more related to Europeans than to South-Central Asians.

Western or Eastern Georgians?

Imereti

[Leto]

They look far more like Romanians than Balochi. I thought they would have been more related to Europeans than to South-Central Asians.

Georgians are the closest to Europeans among the West Asians. North Caucasians may have more Euro HG ancestry but culturally they're very Islamicized and have much more in common with Arabs than Europeans.

[FinalFlash]

Is there a big difference? Abkhazians for example are almost indistinguishable from Northwestern and Western Georgians.

Of course. Quite significant actually. Western Georgians(Imeretians, Megrelians, Svans) mostly descend from Colchians. Whereas eastern Georgians(Kakhetians, Kartlians) descend from Iberians.

On these Gedmatch calculators, they mostly use Western Georgians as a reference for Georgians hence why they plot nearly identical to Abkhazians(who are the most CHG heavy population). This in turn exaggerates the genetic distance of Georgians to their southern neighbors, Armenia.

Check this out. You can translate the page.

http://laz-colchis-dna.blogspot.com/...de-dogu_9.html

[Leto]

Georgian

# Population Percent
1 West_Asian 52.14
2 East_Med 21.85
3 West_Med 10.13
4 North_Atlantic 5.52
5 Baltic 3.72
6 Red_Sea 3.22
7 South_Asian 1.80
8 East_Asian 0.65
9 Amerindian 0.42
10 Siberian 0.37

Abhkasian

# Population Percent
1 West_Asian 54.30
2 East_Med 22.78
3 West_Med 9.81
4 Baltic 4.62
5 South_Asian 1.91
6 Red_Sea 1.84
7 North_Atlantic 1.64
8 East_Asian 1.48
9 Siberian 1.11
10 Amerindian 0.17

[Leto]

Of course. Quite significant actually. Western Georgians(Imeretians, Megrelians, Svans) mostly descend from Colchians. Whereas eastern Georgians(Kakhetians, Kartlians) descend from Iberians.

On these Gedmatch calculators, they mostly use Western Georgians as a reference for Georgians hence why they plot nearly identical to Abkhazians(who are the most CHG heavy population). This in turn exaggerates the genetic distance of Georgians to their southern neighbors, Armenia.

Check this out. You can translate the page.

http://laz-colchis-dna.blogspot.com/...de-dogu_9.html

You think Southern and Southeastern Georgians would have a shorter distance to Armenians? Kvemo Kartli is like 40% Azerbaijani Turkish by the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvemo_Kartli

[Tomasso]

Armenians are mixed with Afro Asiatich. They have 6-8% Red Sea and higher East Med than Georgians.