About the Authors
- Ugo A. Perego
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo A. Perego, Hovirag Lancioni, Maribel Tribaldos
Affiliation Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Hovirag Lancioni
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo A. Perego, Hovirag Lancioni, Maribel Tribaldos
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- Maribel Tribaldos
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo A. Perego, Hovirag Lancioni, Maribel Tribaldos
Affiliation Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama
- Norman Angerhofer
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Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Ancestry, Provo, Utah, United States of America
- Jayne E. Ekins
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Affiliation Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Anna Olivieri
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Scott R. Woodward
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Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Ancestry, Provo, Utah, United States of America
- Juan Miguel Pascale
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Affiliation Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama
- Richard Cooke
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Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apdo, Ancón, Panama
- Jorge Motta
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Affiliation Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama
- Alessandro Achilli
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* E-mail: alessandro.achilli@unipg.it
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Competing Interests
NA and SRW are employed by a commercial company: Ancestry.com. 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: UAP MT SRW JMP JM AA. Performed the experiments: UAP HL AO. Analyzed the data: UAP MT NA AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT SRW JMP JM AA. Wrote the paper: UAP JEE RC JM AA. Performed the collection of biological samples: UAP MT JMP JM AA.