JC polyomavirus lineages common among Kiribati Islanders: Implications for human dispersal in the Pacific

Anthropological Science

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-140

  Takasaka, Tomokazu ^a   Ohta, Nobutaka ^b   Zheng, Huai Ying ^a,c   Ikegaya, Hiroshi ^d   Sakurada, Koichi ^d   Kitamura, Tadaichi ^a   Yogo, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Yaizu Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c The Japan Foundation   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Austronesians; Human dispersals; JC polyomavirus; Kiribati; Micronesia; Pacific populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747180793     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.050719     Document Type: Article

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