Dr Kyoko Yamaguchi

preprint

Cain FE, Yamaguchi K. 2024. Effect of iris pigmentation of blue and brown eyed individuals with European ancestry on ability to see in low light conditions after a short-term dark adaption period Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DOI Publisher Url

Chapters

Yamaguchi K. 2023. 4-23　体色関係 (Coat and body colour) Primate Society of Japan . 霊長類学の百科事典　（Encyclopedia of Primatology) 9784621308042

Yamaguchi K. 2021. 24.3 melanin-concentrating hormone (メラニン凝集ホルモン) Inoue I, Imanishi T, Kawamura S, Saito N, Satta Y, Tajima A. Encyclopaedia of Human Genome (ヒトゲノム事典 ) Ishiki Shuppan 9784910389127

Internet publication

Buck L, Yamaguchi K. 2023. Most humans haven’t evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates – here’s why Publisher Url

Conference publication

Yamaguchi K, Koganebuchi K, Sato T, Kannon T, Tsujiguchi H, Hosomichi K, Tajima A, Yamamoto K, Ishida H, Nakamura H, Kimura R. 2020. Genome-wide analysis on adult cephalic morphology in Okinawa and Ishikawa, Japan AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 89th Annual Meeting of the American-Association-of-Physical-Anthropologists (AAPA) 171 :313-313 Author Url

Kimura R, Watanabe C, Miyazato E, Yamaguchi K, Sato T, Ito T, Kawaguchi A, Yamamoto K, Ishida H. FST-QST comparison for testing neutrality of the facial morphology differentiation between Ryukyuans and mainland Japanese Anthropological Science, T 3 :202-202

Kimura R, Watanabe C, Miyazato E, Yamaguchi K, Sato T, Ito T, Kawaguchi A, Ishira H, Yamaguchi T, Yamamoto K, Kouchi M, Mochimaru M. Individual variation in facial size and its influencing factors Anthropological Science, 3 :211-211

Cain FE, Yamaguchi K. Effect of iris pigmentation on ability to see in low light conditions after a short-term dark adaption period among individuals with European ancestry in the U.K. 2024 Human Biology Association Annual Meeting

Journal article

Scelza B, Prall S, Blumenfield T, Crittenden A, Gurven M, Kline M, Koster J, Kushnick G, Mattison S, Pillworth E, Shenk M, Starweather K, Stieglitz J, Sum C-Y, Yamaguchi K, McElreath R. 2020. Patterns of Paternal Investment Predict Cross-Cultural Variation in Jealous Response Nature Human Behaviour, 4 :20-26 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Moromizato K, Kimura R, Fukase H, Yamaguchi K, Ishida H. 2016. Whole-body patterns of the range of joint motion in young adults: masculine type and feminine type Journal of Physical Anthropology, 35 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Yamauchi T, Kimura R, Kawaguchi A, Sato T, Yamaguchi K, Toma T, Miyamoto K, Fukase H, Yamaguchi T, Ishida H. 2016. A comparative study of craniofacial measurements between Ryukyuan and mainland Japanese females using lateral cephalometric images Anthropological Science, 124 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Suzuki S, Sunagawa M, Shindo M, Kimura R, Yamaguchi K, Sato T, Yoneda M, Nagaoka T, Saiki K, Wakebe T, Hirata K, Tsurumoto T, Ishida H. 2015. Degenerative changes in the appendicular joints of ancient human populations from the Japan Islands Quaternary International, 405 :147-159 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Sato T, Nakagome S, Watanabe C, Yamaguchi K, Kawaguchi A, Koganebuchi K, Haneji K, Yamaguchi T, Hanihara T, Yamamoto K, Ishida H, Mano S, Kimura R, Oota H. 2014. Genome-wide SNP analysis reveals population structure and demographic history of the ryukyu islanders in the southern part of the Japanese archipelago. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31 :2929-2940 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Miyazato E, Yamaguchi K, Fukase H, Ishida H, Kimura R. 2014. Comparative analysis of facial morphology between Okinawa Islanders and mainland Japanese using three-dimensional images. Am J Hum Biol, 26 :538-548 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Yamaguchi K, Watanabe C, Kawaguchi A, Sato T, Naka I, Shindo M, Moromizato K, Aoki K, Ishida H, Kimura R. 2012. Association of melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MC1R) polymorphisms with skin reflectance and freckles in Japanese. Journal of Human Genetics, 57 :700-708 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url

Yamaguchi K, Holman DJ. 2010. Longitudinal analysis of permanent tooth emergence in Japanese children ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 118 :141-149 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Holman DJ, Yamaguchi K. 2005. Longitudinal analysis of deciduous tooth emergence: IV. Covariate effects in Japanese children AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 126 :352-358 DOI Author Url Publisher Url

Research Grants Awarded:

Grant value (£): 26,405.00, JSPS, Reconstruction of human facial morphology: Predicting soft tissue morphology from skeletal and DNA information. 2025

Duration of research project: 3 years, Grant value (£): 353916, LJMU Thematic Doctoral Programme, Prof Caroline Wilkinson, LJMU; Sara Shrimpton, LJMU; Prof Ryosuke Kimura, University of the Ryukyus, Japan, The characterization of the genetic basis of human facial feature variation.. 2023

Duration of research project: 2 months, Grant value (£): 4565.04, BES Mobility Fund and Research Capability Fund, LJMU, Pilot study for identifying genetic polymorphisms associated with human facial morphology. 2023

Grant value (£): 2,465.86, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant, Research visit to Department of Human Anatomy and Biology at University of the Ryukyu, Japan for a study to identify genetic polymorphisms that are associated with human facial morphology. 2023

Grant value (£): 2500, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Research visit to University of the Ryukyus to analyse data for project to identify genetic polymorphisms associated with human facial morphology. 2023

Grant value (£): £4998.95, Strategic Research Development Fund - BES Research Capability Fund by School of Biological and Environmental Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Effect of iris pigmentation on ability to see in low light conditions after a short-term dark adaption period.. 2022

Grant value (£): 3000, Faculty of Science LJMU Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fellowship Scheme 2019-2020, Collaboration with University of the Ryukyus for genome-wide assocation study on human visible traits. 2019

Grant value (£): 300, SMBE Carer Award, Carer award to attend SMBE 2019 in Manchester. 2019

Grant value (£): £3,400, Faculty of Science LJMU ECR Fellowship Scheme 2017-18 for collaboration, Data collection for genome-wide association study on human externally visible traits in Ishikawa, Japan.. 2017

Grant value (£): £3,990, Faculty of Science LJMU ECR Fellowship Scheme 2018-19 for collaboration, Genome-wide association study (GWAS) on human externally visible characteristics..

Media Coverage:

Blue eyes may be better for reading in dim light than brown eyes 2025

"Blue eyes may be better for reading in dim light than brown eyes" by Michael Le Page in New Scientist 2024

Republication of the article "Most humans haven't evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates – here's why" by Laura Buck, Kyoko Yamaguchi, January 16, 2023 in more than 20 different websites across the world
phys.org
allafrica.com
english.elpais.com

Conference presentation:

Poster presentation, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 49th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Effect of iris pigmentation on ability to see in low light conditions after a short-term dark adaption period among individuals with European ancestry in the U.K.. 2024

Poster presentation, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2024 Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Effect of iris pigmentation on ability to see in low light conditions after a short-term dark adaption period among individuals with European ancestry in the U.K.. 2024

Poster presentation, SMBE 2019, Genome-wide analysis on the genetic basis of human head morphology in Japanese. 2019

Poster presentation, Yokohama, Japan, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2018 (SMBE2018), The Prediction of the Externally Visible Characteristics of Medieval Human Remains from Poulton, UK, using Next Generation Sequencing. 2018

Oral presentation, University of Oxford, the 4th Workshop of Biological Anthropologists, Reconsidering genetics of skin pigmentation in East Asia. 2017

Oral presentation, Nigata, Japan, The 70th Annual meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon, FST-QST comparison for testing neutrality of the facial morphology differentiation between Ryukyuans and mainland Japanese. 2016

Oral presentation, Okayama, Japan, 18th Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary studies, Japan, Comparison of 3D Facial Morpholgy between Ryukyuans and Hondo Japanese：Neutrality test by FST-QS analysis. 2016

Poster presentation, Kyoto Japan, The 13th International Congress of Human Genetics, Analysis of polymorphisms associated with skin pigmentation in Oceanic populations. 2016

Poster presentation, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan, the 13th International Congress of Human Genetics, Genome-wide association study on cephalic form in Japanese. 2016

Oral presentation, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, The 3rd Workshop of Biological Anthropologists, Genetic studies on human visible traits. 2016

Poster presentation, Tokyo, Japan, The 60th Annual Meeting of The Japan Society of Human Genetics, A genetic enrichment analysis for genes neighboring the hand morphologyassociated SNPs. 2015

Oral presentation, Tokyo, Japan, The 60th Annual Meeting of The Japan Society of Human Genetics, A search for polymorphisms associated with facial size. 2015

Poster presentation, Tokyo, Japan, The 60th Annual meeting of the Japan Society of Human Genetics, A search for polymorphisms associated with the middle phalangeal hair of hand. 2015

Poster presentation, Date, Japan, RNMH2014 The Second International Conference on Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning, Genome-wide association analysis of cephalic form in modern Japanese. 2014

Poster presentation, The Cultural Center in the city of Date, Date City, Hokkaido, Japan:, RNMH2014 The Second International Conference on Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning. Poster presentation, Genome-wide association analysis of cephalic form in modern Japanese. 2014

Oral presentation, Tokyo, Japan, The 59th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Human Genetics, Genome-wide analysis on cephalic morphology among Japanese. 2014

Oral presentation, Hamamatsu, Japan, The 68th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon, Genome-wide search for the genetic factor of cephalic morphology in Japanese population. 2014

Poster presentation, . Calgary, Canada: Hyatt Regency Calgary and Telus Convention Center., The 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology, Identification of genetic polymorphisms related to skin reflectance in the Japanese population.. 2014

Poster presentation, Calgary, Canada, The 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology, Identification of genetic polymorphisms related to skin reflectance in the Japanese population. 2014

Poster presentation, Sitges, Spain, Cell Symposium: Evolution of Modern Humans - From Bones to Genomes., Search for genetic polymorphisms related to skin pigmentation in the Japanese population. 2014

Other Professional Activity:

Internal PGR examiner. 2022

Other invited event:

Tokyo, Japan/ Online, https://www.kuba.co.jp/anthropology75/open_symp.html Invited Panel. Gave a talk on 'Evolution and diversity of human skin pigmentation' for general audience., Open Symposium 'Understanding Human Genetic Diversity from Human Evolutionary History'. 2021

Tokyo, Japan/ Zoom, Invited speaker for Public Symposium "Understanding Human Genetic Variation from the Evolutionary History" organised by the 75th annual meeting of Anthropological Society of Nippon. Gave a talk on the evolution and diversity of human skin pigmentation to over 330 people that include both public audience and academics. https://www.kuba.co.jp/anthropology75/open_symp.html, Invited talk entitled "The evolution and diversity of human skin pigmentation". 2021

Burgos, Spain: CENIEH, I was invited to give a talk entitled "Search for genetic polymorphisms related to skin pigmentation in the Japanese population" at CENIEH, Burgos, Spain to the researchers who work at the institute., Invited Seminar. 2014

Teaching qualification:

PGCert, Learning, Teaching, and Assessing. 2019

Public engagement:

Public talk or lecture, passengers of a cruise, Invited Speaker, I gave two lectures entitled "Reconstructing appearance from DNA" and "Out of Africa: the birth and divergence of Europeans and Asians" to the Japanese passengers on Sun Princess., Sun Princess, Public Lecture. 2019

Public talk or lecture, high school students, invited speaker, Asahigaoka High School, Aichi, Japan, lecture for high school students, http://www.asahigaoka-h.aichi-c.ed.jp/sgh/28_sgh/160615_hasegwakouza.pdf. 2016

Demonstration, General public who visited Manchester Museum, Presenter, Manchester Museum, Science Uncovered at Manchester Museum, https://www2.ljmu.ac.uk/NewsUpdate/viewarticle/2280/. 2015

Conference organisation:

Staff, BABAO 2017. 2017