About the Authors

Qiaomei Fu

qiaomei_fu@eva.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Pavao Rudan

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

Svante Pääbo

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Johannes Krause

Affiliation Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: QF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR. Wrote the paper: JK QM SP. Designed the experiment: QF PR JK. Conducted the lab work: QF JK.