A partial nuclear genome of the Jomons who lived 3000 years ago in Fukushima, Japan

• Main Authors: Hideaki, Kanzawa-Kiriyama, Kirill, Kyukov, Timothy Adrian, Jinam, Kazuyoshi, Hosomichi, Aiko, Saso, Gen, Suwa, Shintaroh, Ueda, Minoru, Yoneda, Atsushi, Tajima, Ken-ichi, Shinoda, Ituro, Inoue, Naruya, Saitou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2017
• Subjects: QH426 Genetics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42070/1/A%20partial%20nuclear.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42070/; https://www.nature.com/articles/jhg2016110

The Jomon period of the Japanese Archipelago, characterized by cord-marked ‘jomon’ potteries, has yielded abundant human skeletal remains. However, the genetic origins of the Jomon people and their relationships with modern populations have not been clarified. We determined a total of 115 million ba...