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@article{Jinam2015UniqueCO, title={Unique characteristics of the Ainu population in Northern Japan}, author={Timothy A. Jinam and Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama and Ituro Inoue and Katsushi Tokunaga and Keiichi Omoto and Naruya Saitou}, journal={Journal of Human Genetics}, year={2015}, volume={60}, pages={565-571}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:205166287} }
It is found that the Ainu are genetically different from Mainland Japanese living in Tohoku, the northern part of Honshu Island, and estimated haplotypes of some Ainu individuals suggested relatively long-term admixture with MainlandJapanese.