About the Authors

Linea Melchior

lme@kennedy.dk (LM); jdissing@mail.dk (JD)

Current address: Centre for Applied Human Molecular Genetics, The Kennedy Centre, Glostrup, Denmark

Affiliation Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Niels Lynnerup

Affiliation Anthropological Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hans R. Siegismund

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Toomas Kivisild

Affiliation Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jørgen Dissing

lme@kennedy.dk (LM); jdissing@mail.dk (JD)

Current address: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Affiliation Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM JD. Performed the experiments: LM. Analyzed the data: LM JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL HRS TK. Wrote the paper: LM JD. Provided the contacts to the archaeological researchers and contributed with input regarding the archaeological/anthropological data: NL. Did the statistical work: HRS. Provided access to his haplogroup database and placed the results in a European context, and prepared the median-joining network: TK.