The fine-scale genetic structure and evolution of the Japanese population.

The fine-scale genetic structure and evolution of the Japanese population.

The contemporary Japanese populations largely consist of three genetically distinct groups-Hondo, Ryukyu and Ainu. By principal-component analysis, while the three groups can be clearly separated, the Hondo people, comprising 99% of the Japanese, form one almost indistinguishable cluster. To underst...

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Main Authors: Fumihiko Takeuchi, Tomohiro Katsuya, Ryosuke Kimura, Toru Nabika, Minoru Isomura, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Yasuharu Tabara, Ken Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Yokota, Xuanyao Liu, Woei-Yuh Saw, Dolikun Mamatyusupu, Wenjun Yang, Shuhua Xu, Japanese Genome Variation Consortium, Yik-Ying Teo, Norihiro Kato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5665431?pdf=render

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