About the Authors
- Linea Melchior
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* E-mail: lme@kennedy.dk (LM); jdissing@mail.dk (JD)
Current address: Centre for Applied Human Molecular Genetics, The Kennedy Centre, Glostrup, Denmark
Affiliation Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Niels Lynnerup
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Affiliation Anthropological Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Hans R. Siegismund
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Toomas Kivisild
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Affiliation Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jørgen Dissing
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* E-mail: lme@kennedy.dk (LM); jdissing@mail.dk (JD)
Current address: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Affiliation Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LM JD. Performed the experiments: LM. Analyzed the data: LM JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL HRS TK. Wrote the paper: LM JD. Provided the contacts to the archaeological researchers and contributed with input regarding the archaeological/anthropological data: NL. Did the statistical work: HRS. Provided access to his haplogroup database and placed the results in a European context, and prepared the median-joining network: TK.