Figure 1.
Frequencies of the main Y-chromosome haplogroups in the whole Iranian population (inset pie), in the 14 Iranian provinces under study and in East Turkey [23], Iraq [20], Saudi Arabia [26] and Pakistan [24]).
(a) Azeris and Assyrians, (b) Armenians, Assyrians and Zoroastrians, (c) Persians and Zoroastrians, (d) Bandari and Afro-Iranians. Pie areas are proportional to the population sample size (small pies, N<50; intermediate pies, 50<N<100; large pies, N>100) and the areas of the sectors are proportional to the haplogroup frequencies in the relative population.
Table 1.
Haplogroup frequencies (%) in the examined Iranian groups.
Figure 2.
Frequency and variance distributions of haplogroup J lineages observed in Iran together with the relative networks of the associated STR haplotypes.
Left panels: frequency distributions; central panels: variance distributions; right panels: networks. The areas of circles and sectors are proportional to the haplotype frequency in the haplogroup and in the geographic area, respectively, (for details about the colours, see Figures S2, S3, S4).
Figure 3.
Principal component analysis performed using haplogroup frequencies in the Iranian populations of the present study (yellow) compared with those of relevant populations from the literature (East Africans in black, North African and Near Eastern Arabs in red, Europeans in blue, Turks and Caucasians in green and South Asians in pink).
For population codes, see Table S1. On the whole, 25% of the total variance is represented: 14% by the first PC and 11% by the second PC. Insert illustrates the contribution of each haplogroup. Characterizing haplogroups are reported with the same population colours.
Table 2.
AMOVA analysis.