About the Authors
- Alena Kushniarevich
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* E-mail: lkushniarevich@gmail.com
Affiliation Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Larysa Sivitskaya
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- Nina Danilenko
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- Tadeush Novogrodskii
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Affiliation Belarusian State University, Faculty of History, Department of Ethnology, Museology and History of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
- Iosif Tsybovsky
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Affiliation Centre of Forensic Expertise and Criminalistics, Minsk, Belarus
- Anna Kiseleva
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Affiliation Centre of Forensic Expertise and Criminalistics, Minsk, Belarus
- Svetlana Kotova
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Affiliation Centre of Forensic Expertise and Criminalistics, Minsk, Belarus
- Gyaneshwer Chaubey
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Affiliation Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Ene Metspalu
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Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Hovhannes Sahakyan
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Affiliations Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Human Genetics Group, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
- Ardeshir Bahmanimehr
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Affiliation Human Genetics Group, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
- Maere Reidla
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Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Siiri Rootsi
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Affiliation Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Jüri Parik
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Affiliations Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Tuuli Reisberg
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Affiliations Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Alessandro Achilli
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- Baharak Hooshiar Kashani
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Francesca Gandini
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Anna Olivieri
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Doron M. Behar
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Affiliation Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
- Antonio Torroni
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Oleg Davydenko
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- Richard Villems
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
Competing Interests
Co-authors Alessandro Achilli and Doron M Behar are Academic Editors for PLOS ONE. 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: OD RV. Performed the experiments: AK. Analyzed the data: AK AnK AO FG AA BHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS ND TN SK IT HS AB EM JP TR SR MR. Wrote the paper: AK. Discussed the results and commented on the manuscript: AK OG IT GC SR MR DMB AA AO AT RV.