About the Authors

Quan Long

quan.long@gmi.oeaw.ac.at

Affiliations Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Daniel C. Jeffares

Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Qingrun Zhang

Affiliations Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Kai Ye

Affiliation Departments of Molecular Epidemiology, Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Viktoria Nizhynska

Affiliation Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria

Zemin Ning

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Chris Tyler-Smith

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Magnus Nordborg

Affiliations Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria, Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: VN. Analyzed the data: QL. Wrote the paper: QL DCJ MN. Conceived the study: QL MN CTS. Designed the algorithm: QL KY ZN. Wrote the program: QL QZ.