Q blood type

…He served as professor at Kanazawa Medical College (now Kanazawa University School of Medicine), the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and director of the National Research Institute of Police Science, National Police Agency. He held a leading position in Japanese forensic medicine, and his research on blood types, including the discovery of the Q blood type (1934) and the investigation of blood type inheritance, extended his career to anthropology, human genetics, fingerprinting, and parentage. He performed many forensic autopsies, and was involved in difficult cases such as the Teikoku Bank Incident and the Shimoyama Incident after the war, which are known to be difficult cases, and played a major role in establishing scientific investigation of crime. …

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…金沢医大(現，金沢大学医学部)，東京大学，東京医科歯科大学の教授，警察庁科学警察研究所長を歴任。日本の法医学の指導的地位に立つとともに，Q式血液型の発見(1934)，血液型の遺伝の調査など血液型についての研究をはじめとして，その業績は人類学，人類遺伝学，指紋学，親子鑑別などに及んだ。多数の司法解剖を手がけ，ことに戦後の難事件として知られる帝銀事件や下山事件などに関与し，犯罪の科学捜査確立に果たした役割は大きい。…

※「Ｑ 式血液型」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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