Modern Japanese people arose from 3 ancestral groups, 1 of them unknown, DNA study suggests Livescience.com
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News Summary
- Scientists sequenced the DNA of more than 3,200 Japanese people across seven regions of the country
- They found that modern Japanese people mostly descended from three ancestral groups: Neolithic Jomon hunter-gatherers; a group believed to have been the ancient predecessors of the Han Chinese; and an unidentified group with ties to Northeast Asia
Modern Japanese people largely descend from three ancestral groups, a new study suggests. The research also reveals genetic ties with our closest extinct relatives the Neanderthals and Denisovans [+3386 chars]
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