About the Authors

Sergio Avena

Affiliations Departamento de Antropología, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro de Estudios Biomédicos, Biotecnológicos, Ambientales y Diagnósticos, Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marc Via

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Unit of Anthropology, Department of Animal Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Elad Ziv

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Christopher R. Gignoux

Affiliations Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cristina Dejean

Affiliations Departamento de Antropología, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro de Estudios Biomédicos, Biotecnológicos, Ambientales y Diagnósticos, Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Scott Huntsman

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gabriela Torres-Mejía

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Julie Dutil

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Jaime L. Matta

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Kenneth Beckman

Affiliation Deptartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Developmental Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Esteban González Burchard

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

María Laura Parolin

Affiliations Departamento de Antropología, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro de Estudios Biomédicos, Biotecnológicos, Ambientales y Diagnósticos, Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Alicia Goicoechea

Affiliations Departamento de Antropología, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Noemí Acreche

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina

Mariel Boquet

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina

María Del Carmen Ríos Part

Affiliation Banco de Sangre del Hospital Regional de Comodoro Rivadavia, Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina

Vanesa Fernández

Affiliation Servicio de Hemoterapia Hospital Penna de Bahía Blanca, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jorge Rey

Affiliation Servicio de Hemoterapia Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mariana C. Stern

Affiliation Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Raúl F. Carnese

Affiliation Departamento de Antropología, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Laura Fejerman

Laura.fejerman@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF SA RFC CD AG. Performed the experiments: KB. Analyzed the data: LF SA SH JD MLP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NA MB MDCRP VF JR RFC EJP-S JD EZ GT-M JLM. Wrote the paper: LF SA MV CRG MCS EZ EGB EJP-S.