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Dishonest? Have you been hitting the sauce lately? You can't pick and choose whichever Georgian subgroup you'd like to use to model Armenians with and claim your selection to be the objective truth. Whether you like it or not, Georgians are in fact genetically heterogenous whether they are...
I modeled various Armenian subgroups using Lebanese and various Georgian subgroups as sources here:
Eastern and Hamshentsi Armenians are basically 95-100% Meskhetian-like in that model. Even the other subgroups are predominantly Meskhetian-like.
Using Laz and Kartlians is where it gets a bit...
One big cluttered mess lol. Sorry but if that's what it says on this PCA then it doesn't agree with admix oracles. Seems like we have a bit of a conundrum here.
Well, at least we can agree on some things.
Sure, some NE Caucasians can in fact score relatively high West Central Asian compare to say Chechens/Ingush, Maykopians, and Georgians.
What type of Georgian and Lebanese are we talking in your model and at what distance? Also, what type of Armenian are we modeling here? I told you before,.Gedmatch gives default and unreliable models at whacky distances which is why I don't trust that calc. This is precisely where G25 shines in...
Most Caucasians score very little, and considerably less West Central Asian than Yezdis. Yezdis are an Iranian-shifted people, not Caucasian at all.
As a matter of fact, Armenians are considerably closer to Trabzonians, Laz, and Southern Georgians than Yezdis are to the adormentioned groups...
I've ran many kits myself.
Hamshentsi Armenians score less SW Asian than Kurds do. East Armenians are roughly on par. Urfa and other southern shifted Armenians score in between Kurds and North Mesopotamians.
It doesn't make you less 'semitic', it makes you considerably more Iranian-shifted than what Armenians are. Also, you aren't more Caucasus-shifted than what Armenians are. The notion of a Yezdi having more Caucasus-related ancestry than Armenians is highly unlikely, if not laughable.