About the Authors
- Erika Tamm
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Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Toomas Kivisild
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Maere Reidla
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Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Mait Metspalu
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Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- David Glenn Smith
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Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Connie J. Mulligan
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Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Claudio M. Bravi
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Affiliation Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular, La Plata, Argentina
- Olga Rickards
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Cristina Martinez-Labarga
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Elsa K. Khusnutdinova
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Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
- Sardana A. Fedorova
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Yakutia, Russia
- Maria V. Golubenko
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tomsk, Russia
- Vadim A. Stepanov
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tomsk, Russia
- Marina A. Gubina
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Sergey I. Zhadanov
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ludmila P. Ossipova
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Larisa Damba
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Mikhail I. Voevoda
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Jose E. Dipierri
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Affiliation Instituto de Biologia de la Altura–Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
- Richard Villems
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Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Ripan S. Malhi
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: malhi@uiuc.edu
Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TK RM. Performed the experiments: ET MR. Analyzed the data: CB MM TK RM ET MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB CM RV TK RM DS OR CM EK SF MG VS MG SZ LO LD MV JD. Wrote the paper: CM RV MM TK RM ET DS.