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in 1995. There, he became a professor in the Division of Biodiversity and Evolution, a unit of the Department of Biological Sciences. In 2008, he won the Kihara prize awarded by the
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from the same institution in 1978. Tajima later stated that during his undergraduate degree he studied under Tsutomu Haga, and that he chose to study
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put him in a good position to explore evolutionary trees with respect to single loci. In a 1983 paper, published in the journal
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in the same area. The 1983 paper has been described as among the "founding papers of modern population genetics".
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in 1983. Tajima returned to Kyushu university as a visiting scholar in 1983. Beginning in 1989, he worked at the
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Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand; Moltke, Ida; Albrechtsen, Anders; Nielsen, Rasmus (2013).
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As a graduate student, Tajima was one of several researchers working independently on
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as an assistant professor and then an associate professor, before moving to the
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Japanese population geneticist known for his contributions to coalescence theory
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston alumni
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In 1989 Tajima published another influential paper in
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Index

population geneticist
coalescence theory
test statistic
Tajima's D
Ōkawa
Fukuoka prefecture
Kyushu University
Master's degree
genetics
graduate student
University of Texas
Houston
Masatoshi Nei
doctoral dissertation
National Institute of Genetics
University of Tokyo
Genetics Society of Japan
coalescence theory
locus
phylogenetics
population genetics
Genetics
mean
variance
most recent common ancestor
John Kingman
site frequency spectrum
evolving neutrally
directional selection
balancing selection

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