About the Authors

Michelle de Saint Pierre

Affiliations Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Genética Humana, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Independencia, Santiago, Chile

Francesca Gandini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Ugo A. Perego

Affiliations Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Martin Bodner

Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Alberto Gómez-Carballa

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, and Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Daniel Corach

Affiliation Servicio de Huellas Digitales Genéticas, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Norman Angerhofer

Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, AncestryDNA, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Scott R. Woodward

Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, AncestryDNA, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Ornella Semino

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Antonio Salas

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, and Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Walther Parson

Affiliations Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mauricio Moraga

Affiliations Programa de Genética Humana, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Independencia, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Antropología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile

Alessandro Achilli

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Antonio Torroni

anna.olivieri@unipv.it (AO); antonio.torroni@unipv.it (AT)

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Anna Olivieri

anna.olivieri@unipv.it (AO); antonio.torroni@unipv.it (AT)

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT AO MdSP MM AS WP. Performed the experiments: MdSP FG MB AGC DC NA. Analyzed the data: MdSP FG UAP MB AGC DC AA AO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT OS NA SRW AS WP MM. Wrote the paper: MdSP UAP SRW OS AS WP AA AT AO.