About the Authors

Alessandro Achilli

Affiliations Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Ugo A. Perego

Affiliations Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Claudio M. Bravi

Affiliation Laboratorio de Genética Molecular Poblacional, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular (IMBICE), La Plata, Argentina

Michael D. Coble

Affiliation Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Qing-Peng Kong

Affiliations Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, and Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Scott R. Woodward

Affiliation Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Antonio Salas

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Antonio Torroni

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: torroni@ipvgen.unipv.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Hans-Jürgen Bandelt

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS AT HB AA. Performed the experiments: AA UP. Analyzed the data: AS AT HB CB QK AA MC UP SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT. Wrote the paper: AS AT HB CB QK AA MC UP SW.