About the Authors

Kshitij Wagh

Contributed equally to this work with: Kshitij Wagh, Aatish Bhatia

Affiliation Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Aatish Bhatia

Contributed equally to this work with: Kshitij Wagh, Aatish Bhatia

Affiliation Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Gabriela Alexe

Affiliations The Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anupama Reddy

Affiliation BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Vijay Ravikumar

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Michael Seiler

Affiliation BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Michael Boemo

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Ming Yao

Affiliation The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Lee Cronk

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Asad Naqvi

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Shridar Ganesan

Affiliation The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Arnold J. Levine

gyanbhanot@gmail.com (GB); alevine@ias.edu (AL)

Affiliations The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Gyan Bhanot

gyanbhanot@gmail.com (GB); alevine@ias.edu (AL)

Affiliations Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB SG AJL. Performed the experiments: KW AB MY MB. Analyzed the data: KW AB GA AR AN VR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GA MS AR KW AB. Wrote the paper: GB KW AB. Contributed information on Maasai diet and social customs: LC.