In Tokyo from 2015

'Jomon woman' helps solve Japan's genetic mystery - NHK World - INGLESE

She had brown eyes, thin curly hair and dark skin that was prone to sun spots. Her earwax was wet and she had a high tolerance for alcohol, even though she never drank spirits.

We know this and much more about a woman who lived and died 3,800 years ago.All of these details were deduced from her genetic information, meticulously pieced together by a Japanese research team in a breakthrough project of genome sequencing.

The researchers mapped the entire genome of a person from prehistoric times to an unprecedented degree of precision and complexity. What they found tells us not just how she looked, but could eventually answer the question of where the Japanese came from tens of thousands of years ago, and how people lived on the archipelago in the millennia since.

And given that modern Japanese inherited about 10 percent of the DNA present in the woman, she could contribute to an understanding of the diseases and medical conditions to which the Japanese are prone. - By Furuichi Yu

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