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What region are you referring to?

Thanks, sparkey. Please let me add a few notes. Hello, MOESAN. Regarding the nomenclature issue, please see the opinion of the eminent Assyriologist, Dr. Simo Parpola, in my post here, and copied below: National and Ethnic Identity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Identity in...

One of Dr. McDonald's plots, with two Syrian Arabs, two Iraqi Mandaeans, one additional Armenian, and several Assyrians (Syriacs, Chaldeans, and "Nestorians") added. This does not include Turks, Iranians, Kurds, Georgians, and others, as the plot is cropped where the original image contained a...

David at Eurogenes created a MDS plot for a few populations yesterday. I superimposed the plot over a map of the general region associated with the particular populations examined. The original MDS is also provided (2nd image). The two Iraqi Arabs are from Baghdad and S Iraq. The...

Some passages: John Baker, Race:

I really do not deserve that. I am sorry.

Dogmatic does not equal bias. And, quite frankly, I take great offense to even the suggestion. There was nothing to interpret. Dr. McDonald has consistently placed the great majority of Kurds in what is today part of NW Iran. I believe the average spot may be a bit too far east, and perhaps...

There is a fine line between being passionate, and being disrespectful. This gentleman, from my perspective, has crossed that line a number of times. This includes instances where the issue being discussed pertained to Assyrians, or where an Assyrian forum member was engaged in the discussion...

Green = Kurds. Kurds of Iraqi origin, and Zaza Kurds. And, sorry, this is what I thought he had stated in his thread on ABF. I thought he was definitively Zaza. But, he is Alevi, with "possibly some Zaza." "Alevi Kurds from Dersim (possibly some Zaza), with oral ties to Khorasan." All of...

Green=Iraqi Kurd and Zaza Fuchsia=Turk (w/ believed Khorasanian ancestry) Cyan=Armenian Blue=Iraqi Mandaean (From S Iraq) Red=Assyrian (Chaldean Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, and "Nestorian") Orange=Syrian (Arab Muslim) Adding two Syrians and one new Assyrian. Regarding Mosul...

How is Cobol19 "maybe Armenian/Turkish?" The average McDonald green spot on the map for 7 Assyrians is NE Iraq*. See the first attachment. The second attachment contains the central point of the McDonald green (average) spots for only those individuals who received the new McDonald analysis...

Jefferson's T Y-DNA line may have moved north/west millennia ago. Haplogroup T is one of the more important paternal lines in Assyrians. See: 1.http://www.familytreedna.com/public/AssyrianHeritageDNAProject/default.aspx?section=yresults 2.Mendez et al. (2011) 3.Yepiskoposyan et al. (2006)

Hello Maciamo. Would you please add Assyrians and Yezidis? "Genetic Testing of Language Replacement Hypothesis in Southwest Asia" LEVON YEPISKOPOSIAN, ASHOT HARUTYUNIAN, ARMINE KHUDOYAN Arya International University, Yerevan Institute of Man, Yerevan 2006 n=x 106 hgx Assyrian hg1...

And, for those interested, a PC plot from Mendez et al., of the "kinship R matrix" based on the Y-DNA frequencies for populations (after removal of outliers). Populations:

Were the results of the Mendez et al. study included in the frequencies? Increased Resolution of Y Chromosome Haplogroup T Defines Relationships among Populations of the Near East, Europe,and Africa Hum Biol. 2011 Feb;83(1):39-53. POP n T M184* M70* PS21* P77 P330 P321* P317 L131* P322* P327...