The history of human populations in the Japanese Archipelago inferred from genome-wide SNP data with a special reference to the Ainu and the Ryukyuan populations

2012/11/08 by Timothy Jinam, N Saitou, Nao Nishida +17 · 8 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Archaeology #Archipelago #Biology #China #Demography #Ethnology #Evolutionary biology #Forensic and Genetic Research #Gene #Genealogy #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetics #Geography #History #Homeland #Mainland #Mainland China #Phylogenetic tree #Population #Sociology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/jhg.2012.114

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