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Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe
An extensive study of Scythian genomes by Unterländer, Lazaridis, Reich and others shows that Kurds and some Iranians have almost a 100% probability of being descended from Western Scythians.
The other surprise is Kurds have one of the highest probabilities from Indo-Iranians of being descended from Eastern Scythians in addition to Western Scythians.
They used very sophisticated methods to arrive at their conclusions
This is consistent with what Eurasian DNA independently found a couple of years that Tian Shan Saka are ancestral to Kurds. Kudos to Dilawer. https://eurasiandna.com/impact-of-th...an-demography/
The Kurdish group consisted of 30 samples of Kurmanji Kurds from Turkmenistan which are basically and extension of Khorasani Kurds in Iran. Khorasani Kurds number about 1.5 million and are basically Kurmanji Kurds who migrated there about 500 years ago and still speak Kurmanji Kurdish.
From their supplement (typo corrected) Numbers are probabilities not admixture percentage
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Decent from E Scythians (dark grey). Pink shows decent from W Scythians
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Decent from W Scythians shown in red
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