Ethnic Bargaining and Separatism in the South Caucasus

Fard, Fahimeh Khansari; Basiri, Mohammad Ali; Yazdani, Enayatollah

doi:10.1353/reg.2019.0011

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“…In 1813, the Golestan agreement between Russia and Iran separated the North Talysh area from Iran, dividing Astara city into two parts. The Astrachai River was used as the border, and the area to the north was ceded to the Russian government (which became the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1991 CE), and the southern area remained with Iran (Fard et al., 2019). The MDS and heatmap plots of the current study show that the Talyeshes from Azerbaijan are the most similar in their maternal lineages to the Talyeshes from Iran (Figures 7 and 8).…”

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A comprehensive review of HVS‐I mitochondrial DNA variation of 19 Iranian populations

Amjadi,

Hayatmehr,

Egyed

et al. 2023

Annals of Human Genetics

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Iran is located along the Central Asian corridor, a natural artery that has served as a cross‐continental route since the first anatomically modern human populations migrated out of Africa. We compiled and reanalyzed the HVS‐I (hypervariable segment‐I) of 3840 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 19 Iranian populations and from 26 groups from adjacent countries to give a comprehensive review of the maternal genetic variation and investigate the impact of historical events and cultural factors on the maternal genetic structure of modern Iranians. We conclude that Iranians have a high level of genetic diversity. Thirty‐six haplogroups were observed in Iran's populations, and most of them belong to widespread West‐Eurasian haplogroups, such as H, HV, J, N, T, and U. In contrast, the predominant haplogroups observed in most of the adjacent countries studied here are H, M, D, R, U, and C haplogroups. Using principal component analysis, clustering, and genetic distance‐based calculations, we estimated moderate genetic relationships between Iranian and other Eurasian groups. Further, analyses of molecular variance and comparing geographic and genetic structures indicate that mtDNA HVS‐I sequence diversity does not exhibit any sharp geographic structure in the country. Barring a few from some culturally distinct and naturally separated minorities, most Iranian populations have a homogenous maternal genetic structure.

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