Revisiting the peopling of Japan: an admixture perspective.

doi:10.1038/jhg.2009.39

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Revisiting the peopling of Japan: an admixture perspective.

Journal of human genetics - 1 Jun 2009

Rasteiro Rita, Chikhi Lounès

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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...

Topics

Asian People
Chromosomes, Human, Y
DNA
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Haplotypes
Humans
Male
Models, Genetic

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PMID: 19424284
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2009.39

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