Naruya Saitou
National Institute of Genetics
232 Papers
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Naruya Saitou is an academic researcher from National Institute of Genetics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Gene. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 227 publications. Previous affiliations of Naruya Saitou include University of the Ryukyus & University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Helicobacter pylori genomes reveal Paleolithic human migration to the east end of Asia
Rumiko Suzuki,Naruya Saitou,Osamu Matsuari,Seiji Shiota,Takashi Matsumoto,Junko Akada,Nagisa Kinjo,Fukunori Kinjo,Kuniko Teruya,Makiko Shimoji,Akino Shiroma,Mototsugu Kato,Kazuhito Satou,Takashi Hirano,Masahiro Asaka,Kirill Kryukov,Yoshan Moodley,Yoshio Yamaoka +17 more
TL;DR: A virulence bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, evolved parallel to its host human, therefore, can work as a marker for tracing the human migration as mentioned in this paper , and the closest strains of hpRyukyu were found from Afghanistan, Punjab, and Nepal, which suggest this strain originated in the central Asia and traveled across the Eurasian continent during Paleolithic era.
Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Phylogeny of 4 Populations of the Widely Distributed Cynomolgus Macaque (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis)
Antoine Blancher,Maxime Bonhomme,Brigitte Crouau-Roy,Keiji Terao,Takashi Kitano,Naruya Saitou +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the mtDNA polymorphism of 304 Macaca fascicularis (M. f. f) individuals was studied, representative of 4 cynomolgus macaque populations (Indochina, Indonesia, Philippines, and Mauritius).
House mouse Mus musculus dispersal in East Eurasia inferred from 98 newly determined complete mitochondrial genome sequences.
Yue Li,Kazumichi Fujiwara,Naoki Osada,Yosuke Kawai,Toyoyuki Takada,Alexey P. Kryukov,Kuniya Abe,Hiromichi Yonekawa,Toshihiko Shiroishi,Kazuo Moriwaki,Naruya Saitou,Hitoshi Suzuki +11 more
TL;DR: This study provides a solid framework for the spatiotemporal movement of the human-associated organisms in Holocene Eastern Eurasia using whole mtDNA sequences, reliable evolutionary rates and accurate branching patterns.
Relative Efficiencies of the Fitch-Margoliash, Maximum-Parsimony, Maximum-Likelihood, Minimum-Evolution, and Neighbor-joining Methods of Phylogenetic Tree Construction in Obtaining the Correct Tree
Naruya Saitou,Tadashi Imanishi +1 more
TL;DR: The relative efficiencies of several tree-making methods for obtaining the correct phylogenetic tree were studied by using computer simulation, and the NJ method seems to be a method of choice.
Lineage-specific homogenization of the polyubiquitin gene among human and great apes.
TL;DR: The lineage-specific homogenization of UbC among closely related species suggests that concerted evolution has a key role in the short-term evolution of UbB and UbC.