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Development of an Okinawa panel for biogeographic inference of Okinawans.
Annals of human biology - 1 Feb 2023
Nakanishi Hiroaki, Pereira Vania, Børsting Claus, Tvedebrink Torben, Takada Aya, Saito Kazuyuki
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BACKGROUND: The Precision ID Ancestry Panel with 165 SNP markers was unable to differentiate between mainland Japanese and Okinawa Japanese or to distinguish either of them from other East Asian populations. AIM: An Okinawa panel was developed with the aim of further separating Okinawa Japanese individuals from mainland Japanese and other Asian groups. Seventy-five SNPs were selected using the most informative...
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