Article
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.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 2012
Jinam Timothy, Nishida Nao, Hirai Momoki, Kawamura Shoji, Oota Hiroki, Umetsu Kazuo, Kimura Ryosuke, Ohashi Jun, Tajima Atsushi, Yamamoto Toshimichi, Tanabe Hideyuki, Mano Shuhei, Suto Yumiko, Kaname Tadashi, Naritomi Kenji, Yanagi Kumiko, Niikawa Norio, Omoto Keiichi, Tokunaga Katsushi, Saitou Naruya
Abstract excerpt
The Japanese Archipelago stretches over 4000 km from north to south, and is the homeland of the three human populations; the Ainu, the Mainland Japanese and the Ryukyuan. The archeological evidence of human residence on this Archipelago goes back to >30 000 years, and various migration routes and root populations have been proposed. Here, we determined close to one million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...
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