About the Authors

Doron M. Behar

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Ene Metspalu

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Toomas Kivisild

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Saharon Rosset

Affiliation Data Analytics Research Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights., New York, United States of America

Shay Tzur

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Yarin Hadid

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Guennady Yudkovsky

Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Dror Rosengarten

Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Luisa Pereira

Affiliations Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Antonio Amorim

Affiliations Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Ildus Kutuev

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia

David Gurwitz

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Batsheva Bonne-Tamir

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Richard Villems

rvillems@ebc.ee

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Karl Skorecki

Affiliations Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RV DB KS. Performed the experiments: RV DB EM LP ST YH GY. Analyzed the data: RV DB TK SR KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG RV AA DB EM LP DR IK BB KS. Wrote the paper: RV DB TK SR KS.