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Yes the Caucasus scores were inflated and the Atlantic-Med and to a lesser degree the North European were surpressed. These scores were not "wrong" per se, as the guy who created the Dodecad calculators included several Assyrians in his intial run and those kits still score like that with over 50% Caucasus but with other gedmatch calculators especially with Eurogenes their scores are similar to other Assyrians. The difference is due to the "calculator effect" which Dodecad suffers from but not Eurogenes.
Same thing applies to the Harappaworld calculator.
Assyrian_West: Assyrians west of the Tigris river, mostly from Mardin and western Sirnak, but includes also several individuals with ancestry from Diyarbakir, Aleppo and Seert. Mostly Syriac Orthodox, substantial Syriac Catholic and Chaldean Catholic, some Church of the East/Nestorian
Assyrian_North: Assyrians east of the Tigris originally from Hakkari, eastern Sirnak, West Azerbaijan and northernmost Iraq north of Zakho, Amadiya and Rawanduz, some probably also with historical roots in Salmas and Van. Mostly Church of the East/Nestorians, substantial Chaldean Catholic, some Protestants.
Assyrian_South: Assyrians east of the Tigris from modern day Iraq, south of Zakho, Amadiya and Rawanduz. Mostly Chaldean Catholic, substantial amount of Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic, some Protestants.
The difference between the old Assyrian average and how modern day Assyrians who upload to Gedmatch score is due to the calculator effect as I explained above, not due to mixed individuals. The same applies to the Saudi, Basque and most other averages who were part of the original run. The North Euro percentages as an example are inflated for most Northern and Eastern Europeans.
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