Editing Demographics of Iran (section)

==== Haplogroups ====

===== Y-chromosome DNA =====
Y-Chromosome DNA [[Y-DNA]] represents the male lineage, the Iranian [[Y-chromosome]] pool is as follows where haplogroups, [[Haplogroup R1 (Y-DNA)|R1]] (25%), [[Haplogroup J-M172 (Y-DNA)|J2]] (23%) [[Haplogroup G (Y-DNA)|G]] (14%), [[Haplogroup J-M267 (Y-DNA)|J1]] (8%) [[Haplogroup E1b1b (Y-DNA)|E1b1b]] (5%), [[Haplogroup L (Y-DNA)|L]] (4%), 
[[Haplogroup Q (Y-DNA)|Q]] (4%), comprise more than 85% of the total chromosomes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Regueiro |first1=M. |last2=Cadenas |first2=A.M. |last3=Gayden |first3=T. |last4=Underhill |first4=P.A. |last5=Herrera |first5=R.J. |title=Iran: Tricontinental Nexus for Y-Chromosome Driven Migration |journal=Human Heredity |date=2006 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=132–143 |doi=10.1159/000093774 |pmid=16770078 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nasidze |first1=I. |last2=Quinque |first2=D. |last3=Rahmani |first3=M. |last4=Alemohamad |first4=S. A. |last5=Stoneking |first5=M. |title=Close Genetic Relationship Between Semitic-speaking and Indo-European-speaking Groups in Iran |journal=Annals of Human Genetics |date=March 2008 |volume=72 |issue=2 |pages=241–252 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00413.x |pmid=18205892 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 100%;"
! Haplogroup<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bekada |first1=Asmahan |last2=Fregel |first2=Rosa |last3=Cabrera |first3=Vicente M. |last4=Larruga |first4=José M. |last5=Pestano |first5=José |last6=Benhamamouch |first6=Soraya |last7=González |first7=Ana M. |title=Introducing the Algerian Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Profiles into the North African Landscape |journal=PLOS ONE |date=19 February 2013 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=e56775 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0056775 |doi-access=free |pmid=23431392 |pmc=3576335 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...856775B }}</ref>
! n
! B
! C
! E1b1a
! E1b1b1a2
! E1b1b1a3
! E1b1b1c
! F
! G
! H
! I
! J1
! J2
! K
! L
! N
! O
! P,R
! Q
! R1a
! R1b
! R1b1a
! R1b1b
! R2
! T
|-
| Marker||||||||M2||V13||V22||M34||||||||||||||||||||||||||||M343||V88||M269||||M70
|-
| Iran||566||0.53||0.18||1.41||1.77||1.8||0.88||0.35||14.00||2.65||0.8||8.13||23.86||0.71||4.00||2.12||1.41||0.71||4.01||17.49||1.24||0.35||6.18||1.41||2.12
|-
|}

===== Mitochondrial DNA =====
[[Mitochondrial DNA]] (mtDNA) represents the female lineage. West Eurasian mtDNA makes up over 90% of the Iranian population on average. (2013).<ref name="Derenko et al 2013 Complete Mitochondrial DNA">{{cite journal |last1=Derenko |first1=Miroslava |last2=Malyarchuk |first2=Boris |last3=Bahmanimehr |first3=Ardeshir |last4=Denisova |first4=Galina |last5=Perkova |first5=Maria |last6=Farjadian |first6=Shirin |last7=Yepiskoposyan |first7=Levon |title=Complete Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in Iranians |journal=PLOS ONE |date=14 November 2013 |volume=8 |issue=11 |pages=e80673 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0080673 |pmid=24244704 |pmc=3828245 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...880673D |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Among them, U3b3 lineages appear to be restricted to populations of Iran and the [[Caucasus]], while the sub-cluster U3b1a is common in the whole [[Near East]] region.<ref name="Derenko et al 2013 Complete Mitochondrial DNA"/>

In Iran outliers in the Y-chromosomes and Mitochondrial DNA gene pool are consisted of the north Iranian ethnicities, such as the [[Gilaks]] and [[Mazandarani people|Mazandarani's]], whose genetic build up including chromosomal DNA are nearly identical to the major [[South Caucasus|South Caucasian]] ethnicities, namely the [[Georgians]], [[Armenians]] and [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani's]]. Other outliers are made by the [[Baloch people]], representing a mere 1–2% of the total Iranian population, who have more patrilinial and mitochondrial DNA lines leaning towards northwest South Asian ethnic groups.

Levels of genetic variation in Iranian populations are comparable to the other groups from the [[Caucasus]], [[Anatolia]] and [[Europe]].<ref name="Derenko et al 2013 Complete Mitochondrial DNA"/>