Kinship analysis of the Jomon skeletons unearthed from a double burial at the Usu-Moshiri site, Hokkaido, Japan

Adachi, Noboru; Suzuki, Toshihiko; Sakaue, Kazuhiro; Takigawa, Wataru; Ohshima, Naoyuki; Dodo, Yukio

doi:10.1537/ase.041228

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“…In addition, DNA extracts from 4 Usu-Moshiri (Adachi et al, 2003(Adachi et al, , 2006) and 14 Funadomari (Adachi et al, 2009) individuals, which were previously subjected to mtDNA analysis, were used for further analyses in this study (see Fig. 1).…”

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Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Hokkaido Jomon skeletons: Remnants of archaic maternal lineages at the southwestern edge of former Beringia

Adachi

Shinoda

Umetsu

et al. 2011

American J Phys Anthropol

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To clarify the colonizing process of East/Northeast Asia as well as the peopling of the Americas, identifying the genetic characteristics of Paleolithic Siberians is indispensable. However, no genetic information on the Paleolithic Siberians has hitherto been reported. In the present study, we analyzed ancient DNA recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, which was connected with southern Siberia in the Paleolithic period. Both the control and coding regions of their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) were analyzed in detail, and we confidently assigned 54 mtDNAs to relevant haplogroups. Haplogroups N9b, D4h2, G1b, and M7a were observed in these individuals, with N9b being the predominant one. The fact that all these haplogroups, except M7a, were observed with relatively high frequencies in the southeastern Siberians, but were absent in southeastern Asian populations, implies that most of the Hokkaido Jomon people were direct descendants of Paleolithic Siberians. The coalescence time of N9b (ca. 22,000 years) was before or during the last glacial maximum, implying that the initial trigger for the Jomon migration in Hokkaido was increased glaciations during this period. Interestingly, Hokkaido Jomons lack specific haplogroups that are prevailing in present-day native Siberians, implying that diffusion of these haplogroups in Siberia might have been after the beginning of the Jomon era, about 15,000 years before present.

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Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Hokkaido Jomon skeletons: Remnants of archaic maternal lineages at the southwestern edge of former Beringia

Adachi

Shinoda

Umetsu

et al. 2011

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…36,37,[40][41][42]52 Primer MT1 corresponds to the HVI segment (nucleotide position (n.p.) 16185À16439 of the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence (rCRS)) ( Table 2).…”

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“…Using molecular biological methods, Adachi et al 40,42 reported kinship analysis for skeletal specimens found in double burials excavated from the Jomon site. However, as there are many different factors, such as period, geographical region and burial style, between their study and our study, it is difficult to compare the results.…”

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“…Using molecular biological methods, kinship and phylogenetic analyses of ancient human remains were carried out. [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] Analyses of DNA from the Yayoi period were carried out mainly on skeletal remains from northern Kyushu. [35][36][37] By contrast, analysis of DNA from the Doigahama site has not yet been carried out.…”

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Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Yayoi period human skeletal remains from the Doigahama site

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We analyzed the mitochondrial DNA extracted from 14 human skeletal remains from the Doigahama site in Japan to clarify the genetic structure of the Doigahama Yayoi population and the relationship between burial style and kinship among individuals. The sequence types obtained in this study were compared with those of the modern Japanese, northern Kyushu Yayoi and ancient Chinese populations. We found that the northern Kyushu Yayoi populations belonged to the groups that include most of the modern Japanese population. In contrast, most of the Doigahama Yayoi population belonged to the group that includes a small number of the modern Japanese population. These results suggest that the Doigahama Yayoi population might have contributed less to the formation of the modern Japanese population than the northern Kyushu Yayoi populations. Moreover, when we examined the kinship between individuals in the Doigahama site, we found that the vicinal burial of adult skeletons indicated a maternal kinship, although that of juvenile skeletons did not. The vicinal burial style might have been influenced by many factors, such as paternal lineages, periods and geographical regions, as well as maternal lineages. In addition, skeletons considered to be those of shamans or leaders had the same sequence types. Their crucial social roles may have been inherited through maternal lineage.

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“…This technique has been applied several times to Jomon populations (Kondo, 1994;Matsumura and Nishimoto, 1996) and has also been cross-checked against ancient DNA data (Shinoda et al, 1998;Adachi et al, 2003Adachi et al, , 2006. Although the exact nature of genealogical relationships among individuals can be rarely specified without a priori knowledge, biodistance analysis can reveal relative relatedness among them (Stojanowski and Schillaci, 2006).…”

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Dental metric variability associated with human migration from skeletal remains of two Jomon sites (Yoshigo and Inariyama) in the Atsumi Peninsula area

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Kusaka

Yano

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This study investigated interpopulation genetic relationships in the Jomon Atsumi Peninsula area, comparing the pattern of human migration revealed by strontium isotope ratio with dental metric variation of Yoshigo and Inariyama skeletal remains. Morphological differences were evaluated between the local and immigrant groups to determine whether or not local populations had become completely homogenized by human migration. We have constructed 4 × 4 contingency tables consisting of four clusters derived from K-means clustering of dental measurements and four groups (immigrants and locals of the two sites), and evaluated their correlations by Fisher's exact test. The results revealed that human migration pattern was significantly correlated with dental metric variation, suggesting that there was regional heterogeneity among Jomon populations in the Atsumi Peninsula area. Although the distinction between immigrants and locals of Yoshigo and Inariyama populations based on strontium isotope analysis was not completely in accord with dental metric variability, most of the identified immigrants exhibited dental profiles that were beyond each local profile as determined using principal component analysis. Furthermore, the dental metric variances of the immigrants were significantly larger than those of the locals, suggesting multiple origins. The microdifferentiation among populations in the Atsumi Peninsula area may suggest nonrandom kin-structured migration and/or population aggregation from surrounding areas.

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Kinship analysis of the Jomon skeletons unearthed from a double burial at the Usu-Moshiri site, Hokkaido, Japan

Cited by 19 publications

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Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Hokkaido Jomon skeletons: Remnants of archaic maternal lineages at the southwestern edge of former Beringia

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Hokkaido Jomon skeletons: Remnants of archaic maternal lineages at the southwestern edge of former Beringia

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Yayoi period human skeletal remains from the Doigahama site

Dental metric variability associated with human migration from skeletal remains of two Jomon sites (Yoshigo and Inariyama) in the Atsumi Peninsula area

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