What is the non-regional outside admixture layer?

Even for people fully from the Iranian plateau, the model includes European, East Asian and Amerindian proxies. This gives any real non-regional ancestry an escape valve instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🦅 New report · Iranian Plateau

Simorgh

Your Iranian Plateau Roots

From the Achaemenid throne at Persepolis to the Zagros highlands and the Caspian coast. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core (Bronze/Iron Age Iranian Plateau, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid Persia) and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 10 communities you most resemble, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (Bronze/Iron Age Plateau, Achaemenid, Sassanid)
🌍 Non-regional outside admixture layer (European, East Asian, Amerindian)
🦅 10 Iranian-plateau communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 Deep / Bronze Age / Iron Age / Classical / Medieval breakdowns
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI

⚠️ Designed for people of predominantly Iranian-plateau ancestry. Works for any of the 10 communities: Persian (Fars), Lur/Bakhtiari, Mazandarani, Qashqai, Azeri, Kurdish, Baloch, Tajik, Zoroastrian, and Hazara. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the regional models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor; our Advanced Ancestry Report is a better choice.

1. Choose your community

Pick the community your family belongs to. Not sure? Choose "Let the model decide" and we compare you to every community automatically.

Persian (Fars)

The Persian-speaking core of the Iranian plateau, Fars, Shiraz, Khorasan, Yazd

Lur / Bakhtiari

Zagros mountain highlanders, Bakhtiari and Khorramabad

Mazandarani

The Caspian coastal lowlands of northern Iran

Qashqai

Turkic-speaking nomadic confederation of Fars province

Azeri (Iranian)

Turkic-speaking Iranian Azerbaijan, East/West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan

Kurdish (Iranian Plateau)

Kurdish-speaking western Iranian plateau

Baloch

Southeastern Iranian plateau, Sistan and Baluchestan

Tajik

Persian-speaking Central Asia, Tajikistan and the Pamirs

Zoroastrian

Zoroastrian communities of Iran (Yazd/Kerman) and the Parsi diaspora of India

Hazara

Persian-speaking, partly Mongol-descended people of central Afghanistan

🔎 Let the model decide (auto)

We detect which community you are genetically closest to.

What your report models

🏺 Ancient regional core

The deep root shared by Iranian-plateau populations: Bronze Age Iranian Plateau, Indus trade contact (Shahr-i-Sokhta), BMAC, and the Median Iron Age.

🏛️ Classical & Imperial Persia

The great imperial era: Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanid Persia, modelled as its own period rather than folded into the Iron Age.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from the region, we include European, East Asian and Amerindian proxies, so any real outside ancestry is detected honestly instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🦅 Community profile

Which of the 10 Iranian-plateau communities your DNA most closely resembles, modelled directly against each community's modern reference population.

🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA lineages

If your raw DNA file is available, we classify your paternal and maternal haplogroups in an Iranian-plateau context (e.g. J2 Anatolian/Zagros, G2a Neolithic farmer, R1a Indo-Iranian).

34 reference populations

Your DNA is modelled against ancient Iranian-plateau proxies, modern community reference populations, and non-regional outside proxies.

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Ancient Persia

Achaemenid Persian Empire (Classical) · BMAC, Bactria-Margiana (Bronze Age) · Bronze Age Iranian Plateau (Dinkha Tepe) · Median, Iranian Plateau (Iron Age) · Parthian Empire (Classical) · Sassanid Persian Empire (Classical) · Shahr-i-Sokhta, Indus Trade Contact (Bronze Age)

Deep ancestral sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG) · Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) · Han (East Asian proxy) · Iranian Neolithic farmer · Steppe (Yamnaya) · Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

Medieval sources

Arab Conquest (Medieval) · Khwarazmian-Ilkhanate, Mongol-era Persia (Medieval)

Modern Iranian communities

Azeri (Iranian) · Baloch · Hazara (Persian-speaking) · Kurdish (Iranian Plateau) · Lur (Bakhtiari) · Lur (Khorramabad) · Mazandarani · Persian (Fars) · Persian (Khorasan) · Persian (Shiraz) · Persian (Yazd) · Qashqai (Turkic nomadic) · Tajik · Zoroastrian (Iran) · Zoroastrian Parsi (India diaspora)

Being honest about the method

🔬 How to read your results (please read)

Your result is computed by genetic similarity (Global25): we place your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space and find the mixture that best reproduces your profile. Every reference population in our panel uses real, official G25 coordinates (published academic ancient-DNA studies and the official Global25 dataset), none of our reference data is simulated or synthetic.

This is not a national or political determination of identity, and it is not a proof of belonging to any specific community. Fine distinctions between neighbouring communities can overlap in G25 and are best-fit estimates.

Why group these 10 communities in one report? They share the same deep Bronze & Iron Age Iranian-plateau layers and the successive imperial eras (Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid Persia) that bound the plateau, the Zagros, the Caspian coast and Central Asia together, the historical threads connecting Persian speakers, Kurds, Azeris, Baloch, Tajiks and the Zoroastrian and Hazara communities.

⚠️ Designed for predominantly Iranian-plateau ancestry. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor.

Get your Simorgh report

Select your community above, then confirm your email. We send you a secure link to upload your DNA (raw file or G25 coordinates) and generate your personalised report.

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📖 What is raw DNA & G25?

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Simorgh report for?

It is built for people of predominantly Iranian-plateau ancestry across any of 10 communities: Persian (Fars), Lur/Bakhtiari, Mazandarani, Qashqai, Azeri, Kurdish, Baloch, Tajik, Zoroastrian, and Hazara. If you are mostly of other ancestry, our Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Why group these communities in one report?

They share the same deep Bronze & Iron Age Iranian-plateau layers and the successive Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanid Persian empires that bound the region together, the historical threads connecting Persian speakers, Kurds, Azeris, Baloch, Tajiks and the Zoroastrian and Hazara communities.

Do I need to have taken a DNA test already?

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

What is the "ancient regional core" in the report?

We model your DNA against Bronze Age Iranian Plateau, Indus trade contact via Shahr-i-Sokhta, BMAC, Median Iron Age, and Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanid imperial Persia, the archaeological proxies closest to the ancient peoples of the Iranian plateau.

How much does it cost and what do I get?

€15. A full PDF report with your ancient regional core %, non-regional outside admixture breakdown, best-fit ancestry models with their fits, closest modern community reference populations, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups (if raw file provided), and a narrative interpreted by Claude AI.

A DNA report for the Iranian plateau

Simorgh is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for the peoples of the Iranian plateau. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, pick your community, and we model your genome against the ancient regional core plus non-regional outside admixture.

Whether you are Persian from Fars, Shiraz, Khorasan or Yazd, Lur/Bakhtiari from the Zagros highlands, Mazandarani from the Caspian coast, Qashqai, Azeri, Kurdish, Baloch, Tajik from Central Asia, Zoroastrian (Iran or the Parsi diaspora), or Hazara: Simorgh models the specific genetic layers of your region's history.

The report uses the Global25 (G25) system developed by geneticist Davidski, placing your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space alongside ancient and modern reference populations, all sourced from Davidski's official Global25 datasheets.

👁 Sample report

See a real Simorgh report

Complete example reports, flip through every page: cover, ancient regional core, deep/Bronze/Iron/Classical/Medieval era breakdowns, community reference populations, haplogroups and the AI narrative.

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🇮🇷 Yasmin · Persian (Fars)

Bronze/Iron Age Iranian Plateau layers, an Achaemenid & Sassanid Classical signal, and a Persian (Fars) community match.

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🏔️ Aram · Kurdish

The same deep plateau streams and imperial Persian layers, seen from the Kurdish community's own reference population.