Department of Biological Sciences Graduate School of Science The University of Tokyo
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Laboratory of Human Evolutionary Genomics


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Naruya SAITOU (Professor)
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Selected publications

Liu Y.-H., Takahashi A., Kitano T., Koide T., Shiroishi T., Moriwaki K., and Saitou N. (2008) Mosaic genealogy of the Mus musculus genome revealed by 21 nuclear genes from its three subspecies. Genes and Genetic Systems, vol. 83, pp. 77-88.

Ezawa K., OOta S., and Saitou N. (2006) Genomewide search of gene conversions in duplicated genes of mouse and rat. Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 927-940.

Saitou N. (2005) Evolution of hominoids and the search for a genetic basis for creating humanness. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, vol. 108, pp. 16-21.

Tomiki T. and Saitou N. (2004) Phylogenetic analysis of proteins associated in four major energy metabolism systems: photosynthesis, oxidative phosphorylation, nitrogen metabolism and sulfur metabolism. Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 59, pp. 158-176.

Kitano T., Liu Y.-H., Ueda S., and Saitou N. (2004) Human specific amino acid changes found in 103 protein coding genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 936-944.


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