About the Authors

Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras

jb.veyrieras@gmail.com (JBV); gilad@uchicago.edu (YG); mstephens@uchicago.edu (MS); pritch@uchicago.edu (JKP)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, BioMiningLabs, Lyon, France

Daniel J. Gaffney

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Joseph K. Pickrell

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yoav Gilad

jb.veyrieras@gmail.com (JBV); gilad@uchicago.edu (YG); mstephens@uchicago.edu (MS); pritch@uchicago.edu (JKP)

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew Stephens

jb.veyrieras@gmail.com (JBV); gilad@uchicago.edu (YG); mstephens@uchicago.edu (MS); pritch@uchicago.edu (JKP)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jonathan K. Pritchard

jb.veyrieras@gmail.com (JBV); gilad@uchicago.edu (YG); mstephens@uchicago.edu (MS); pritch@uchicago.edu (JKP)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

JBV worked as a consultant on this project via his self-employed company Biominglabs and has nothing to declare regarding any patents, products in development or marketed products etc in connection with the study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBV JKP MS YG. Analyzed the data: JBV JKP JP DJG. Wrote the paper: JBV JKP MS.