The Armenian DNA R1b -- 32 % I -- 38 % R1a --- 6 % J --- 6 % Source : Authors : Michael E. Weale Levon Yepiskoposyan Rolf F. Jager Nelli Hovhannisyan Armine Khudoyan Oliver Burbage-Hall Neil Bradman , Mark G. Thomas Title : Armenian Y chromosome haplotypes reveal strong regional structure within a single ethno-national group Hum Genet ( 2001 ) 109 : 659 674 DOI 10.1007/s00439-001-0627-9 Received : 14 September 2001 / Accepted : 14 September 2001 / Published online : 30 October 2001 ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION M.E. Weale ( ✉ ) R.F. Jager O. Burbage-Hall N. Bradman M.G. Thomas Centre for Genetic Anthropology , Departments of Biology and Anthropology , University College London , University of London , Darwin Bdg , Gower St , London WC1E 6BT , UK e-mail : m.weale@ucl.ac.uk , Tel. : + 44-207-4043040 , Fax : + 44-207-4042081 L. Yepiskoposyan N. Hovhannisyan A. Khudoyan Institute of Man , Yerevan , Armenia R.F. Jager Faculteit Biologie , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/tcgapdf/We ... 01-Armenia.pdf Table 1 Y chromosome haplogroup frequencies in six Armenian regions ( determined by paternal grandparental birthplace ) and eight comparative data sets Extract Ararat North Syunik K bakh Iranian West Turkey .