About the Authors
- Alessio Boattini
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alessio Boattini, Begoña Martinez-Cruz
Affiliation Laboratorio di Antropologia Molecolare, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Begoña Martinez-Cruz
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alessio Boattini, Begoña Martinez-Cruz
Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Stefania Sarno
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Affiliation Laboratorio di Antropologia Molecolare, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Christine Harmant
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Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Department of Genomes and Genetics, Paris, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
- Antonella Useli
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Paula Sanz
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Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Daniele Yang-Yao
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Affiliation Laboratorio di Antropologia Molecolare, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Jeremy Manry
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Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Department of Genomes and Genetics, Paris, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
- Graziella Ciani
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Affiliation Laboratorio di Antropologia Molecolare, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Donata Luiselli
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Affiliation Laboratorio di Antropologia Molecolare, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Lluis Quintana-Murci
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Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Department of Genomes and Genetics, Paris, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
- David Comas
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* E-mail: david.comas@upf.edu (DC); davide.pettener@unibo.it (DP)
Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Davide Pettener
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* E-mail: david.comas@upf.edu (DC); davide.pettener@unibo.it (DP)
Affiliation Laboratorio di Antropologia Molecolare, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- the Genographic Consortium
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¶Membership of the Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DP DL DC. Performed the experiments: BMC AU DYY SS GC CH JM LQM PS. Analyzed the data: AB SS BMC AU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL DP DC LQM. Wrote the paper: AB BMC SS DC AU. Performed field work, sampling design and collection: AB DYY AU DL DP.