Genetic origins of the Japanese: A partial support for the dual structure hypothesis

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 437-446

  Omoto, Keiichi ^a   Saitou, Naruya ^b  

^a National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ainu; Asian populations; genetic distance; origins of Japanese; Ryukyuan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; JAPAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

EID: 0030971915     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199704)102:4<437::AID-AJPA1>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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