About the Authors

Haipeng Li

Current address: Department of Computational Genomics, CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Affiliations Department of Computational Genomics, CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

Thomas Wiehe

twiehe@uni-koeln.de

Affiliation Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL TW. Performed the experiments: HL TW. Analyzed the data: HL TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL TW. Wrote the paper: HL TW. Obtained microsatellite data from T. Anderson: TW.