About the Authors

Albert Lalremruata

Contributed equally to this work with: Albert Lalremruata, Markus Ball

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Markus Ball

Contributed equally to this work with: Albert Lalremruata, Markus Ball

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Raffaella Bianucci

Affiliations Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Division of Paleopathology, History of Medicine and Bioethics, Department of Oncology, Transplants and Advanced Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Beatrix Welte

Affiliation Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Andreas G. Nerlich

Andreas.Nerlich@extern.lrz-muenchen.de (AN); carsten.pusch@uni-tuebingen.de (CP)

Affiliation Division of Paleopathology, Institute of Pathology, Academic Clinic München- Bogenhausen, München, Germany

Jürgen F. J. Kun

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Carsten M. Pusch

Andreas.Nerlich@extern.lrz-muenchen.de (AN); carsten.pusch@uni-tuebingen.de (CP)

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMP JFJK. Performed the experiments: AL MB AN. Analyzed the data: CMP AL MB AN RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMP AL MB BW AN. Wrote the paper: RB CMP.