Allele frequencies of the ABCC11 gene for earwax phenotypes among ancient populations of Hokkaido, Japan

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 409-413

  Sato, Takehiro ^a   Amano, Tetsuya ^a   Ono, Hiroko ^a   Ishida, Hajime ^b   Kodera, Haruto ^c   Matsumura, Hirofumi ^d   Yoneda, Minoru ^e   Masuda, Ryuichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABCC11; Ancient DNA; Earwax; Jomon people; Okhotsk people

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER C11; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CERUMEN; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CERUMEN; FOSSILS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 68449083809     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2009.56     Document Type: Article

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