Kazuharu Misawa, Hiroshi Watanabe, Akio Yokoseki, Minako Wakasugi, Osamu Onodera, Ichiei Narita, Takeshi Momotsu, Kenji Sato, Naoto Endo
To explore the effect of aging, a cohort study is being performed on Sado Island, which is located in the Sea of Japan. Sado Island is close to the eastern coast of Japan, yet its population speaks the western Japanese dialect. Consequently, the genetic background of the population of Sado Island is of interest. Based on Nei's genetic distance, we compared the allele frequencies of people from Sado Island to those of people from Nagahama and Miyagi, which are located in the western and northeastern parts of Honshu, respectively...
2019: Human Genome Variation