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Revisiting the peopling of Japan: an admixture perspective.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jun 2009
Rasteiro Rita, Chikhi Lounès
Abstract excerpt
The first inhabitants of Japan, the Jomon hunter-gatherers, had their culture significantly modified by that of the Yayoi farmers, who arrived at a later stage from mainland Asia. How this change took place is still debated, but it has been suggested that modern Japanese are the product of an admixture between these two populations. Here, we applied for the first time an admixture approach to study the...
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