“…and K.S. To clarify the biological relationships between the Edo Ainu and other populations, their haplogroup frequencies were compared with those of 14 ancient and modernâday East Asian and Siberian populations obtained from previously published data (Adachi et al, 2011; Lee et al, 2006; Maruyama, Minaguchi, & Saitou, 2003; Sato et al, 2009; Schurr, Sukernik, Starikovskaya, & Wallace, 1999; Sekiguchi et al, 2008; Starikovskaya, Sukernik, Schurr, Kogelnik, & Wallace, 1998; Starikovskaya et al, 2005; Sukernik et al, 2012; Tajima et al, 2004; Xu & Hu, 2015; Yao, Kong, Bandelt, Kivisild, & Zhang, 2002). The approximate locations of these populations are shown in Figure 1.…”