Unique characteristics of the Ainu population in Northern Japan

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 565-571

  Jinam, Timothy A ^a,b   Kanzawa Kiriyama, Hideaki ^b,c   Inoue, Ituro ^a,b   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^d   Omoto, Keiichi ^e   Saitou, Naruya ^a,b,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAN CHINESE; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; INDIAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); KOREAN (PEOPLE); PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MALE;

COL7A1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; EDAR PROTEIN, HUMAN; EDAR RECEPTOR;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; EDAR RECEPTOR; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84945279397     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: 1435232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2015.79     Document Type: Article

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