About the Authors

Pascale Gerbault

Contributed equally to this work with: Pascale Gerbault, Céline Moret

Affiliation Laboratory of Anthropology, Genetics and Peopling History (AGP), Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Céline Moret

Contributed equally to this work with: Pascale Gerbault, Céline Moret

Affiliation Laboratory of Anthropology, Genetics and Peopling History (AGP), Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Mathias Currat

mathias.currat@unige.ch

Affiliation Laboratory of Anthropology, Genetics and Peopling History (AGP), Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Alicia Sanchez-Mazas

Affiliation Laboratory of Anthropology, Genetics and Peopling History (AGP), Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC ASM. Performed the experiments: PG CM. Wrote the paper: PG CM MC ASM. Developed the simulation algorithm: MC PG. Reviewed and validated the results and interpretation: MC ASM.