About the Authors

Bastien Llamas

Contributed equally to this work with: Bastien Llamas, Michelle L. Holland, Kefei Chen

Affiliations Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia

Michelle L. Holland

Contributed equally to this work with: Bastien Llamas, Michelle L. Holland, Kefei Chen

Current address: Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

Kefei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Bastien Llamas, Michelle L. Holland, Kefei Chen

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Jennifer E. Cropley

Affiliations Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Alan Cooper

c.suter@victorchang.edu.au (CMS); alan.cooper@adelaide.edu.au (AC)

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Catherine M. Suter

c.suter@victorchang.edu.au (CMS); alan.cooper@adelaide.edu.au (AC)

Affiliations Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEC AC CMS. Performed the experiments: BL MLH KC. Analyzed the data: BL MLH KC JEC AC CMS. Wrote the paper: BL MLH JEC AC CMS. Provided ancient samples: AC.