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A partial nuclear genome of the Jomons who lived 3000 years ago in Fukushima, Japan.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2017
Kanzawa-Kiriyama Hideaki, Kryukov Kirill, Jinam Timothy A, Hosomichi Kazuyoshi, Saso Aiko, Suwa Gen, Ueda Shintaroh, Yoneda Minoru, Tajima Atsushi, Shinoda Ken-Ichi, Inoue Ituro, Saitou Naruya
Abstract excerpt
The Jomon period of the Japanese Archipelago, characterized by cord-marked 'jomon' potteries, has yielded abundant human skeletal remains. However, the genetic origins of the Jomon people and their relationships with modern populations have not been clarified. We determined a total of 115 million base pair nuclear genome sequences from two Jomon individuals (male and female each) from the Sanganji Shell Mound...
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