Y-Chromosome and mtDNA Genetics Reveal Significant Contrasts in Affinities of Modern Middle Eastern Populations with European and African Populations

• Danielle A. Badro,

  Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Bouchra Douaihy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bouchra Douaihy, Marc Haber

  Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Marc Haber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bouchra Douaihy, Marc Haber

  Affiliations The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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• Sonia C. Youhanna,

  Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Angélique Salloum,

  Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh,

  Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Brian Johnsrud,

  Affiliation Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Georges Khazen,

  Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith,

  Affiliation Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• David F. Soria-Hernanz,

  Affiliations Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• R. Spencer Wells,

  Affiliation The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Chris Tyler-Smith,

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Daniel E. Platt,

  Affiliation Computational Biology Centre, IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

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• Pierre A. Zalloua ,

  * E-mail: pierre.zalloua@lau.edu.lb

  Affiliations The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• The Genographic Consortium

  ¶Membership of the The Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments section.

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