About the Authors

Hui Li

Affiliations Lab for Human Polymorphism Studies, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Sheng Gu

Affiliation Lab for Human Polymorphism Studies, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xiaoyun Cai

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

William C. Speed

Affiliation Lab for Human Polymorphism Studies, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Andrew J. Pakstis

Affiliation Lab for Human Polymorphism Studies, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Efim I. Golub

Affiliation Lab for Human Polymorphism Studies, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Judith R. Kidd

Affiliation Lab for Human Polymorphism Studies, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kenneth K. Kidd

Kenneth.Kidd@Yale.edu

Affiliation Lab for Human Polymorphism Studies, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK JK HL SG. Performed the experiments: HL XC. Analyzed the data: HL SG WS AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG. Wrote the paper: KK HL.