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Model-based verification of hypotheses on the origin of modern Japanese revisited by Bayesian inference based on genome-wide SNP data.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2015
Nakagome Shigeki, Sato Takehiro, Ishida Hajime, Hanihara Tsunehiko, Yamaguchi Tetsutaro, Kimura Ryosuke, Mano Shuhei, Oota Hiroki
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Various hypotheses for the peopling of the Japanese archipelago have been proposed, which can be classified into three models: transformation, replacement, and hybridization. In recent years, one of the hybridization models ("dual-structure model") has been widely accepted. According to this model, Neolithic hunter-gatherers known as Jomon, who are assumed to have originated in southeast Asia and lived in the...
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