About the Authors
- Danielle A. Badro
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Bouchra Douaihy
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bouchra Douaihy, Marc Haber
Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Marc Haber
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bouchra Douaihy, Marc Haber
Affiliations The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Sonia C. Youhanna
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Angélique Salloum
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Brian Johnsrud
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Affiliation Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Georges Khazen
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
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Affiliation Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- David F. Soria-Hernanz
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Affiliations Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America
- R. Spencer Wells
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Affiliation The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Chris Tyler-Smith
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Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Daniel E. Platt
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Affiliation Computational Biology Centre, IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America
- Pierre A. Zalloua
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* E-mail: pierre.zalloua@lau.edu.lb
Affiliations The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- The Genographic Consortium
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¶Membership of the The Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments section.
Competing Interests
IBM has no marketed products associated with the contents of this paper. IBM has no income derived from contracts related to consultancy or capital or intellectual assets in this research. The affiliation of an author (DP) with IBM does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ CTS RSW EMS. Performed the experiments: DB BD SY AS. Analyzed the data: DP MH DSH GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJ MGS. Wrote the paper: PZ DP DB.