About the Authors

Ge Zhang

Affiliations Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rebekah Karns

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Nina Smolej Narancic

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Guangyun Sun

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hong Cheng

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Sasa Missoni

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Zijad Durakovic

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Pavao Rudan

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Ranajit Chakraborty

Affiliation Center for Computational Genomics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Ranjan Deka

ranjan.deka@uc.edu

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PR RC RD. Performed the experiments: GS HC. Analyzed the data: GZ RK RC RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NSN SM ZD PR. Wrote the paper: GZ RK NSN PR RC RD.