About the Authors
- Doron M Behar
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Affiliations Genomics Research Center, Family Tree DNA, Houston, Texas, United States of America , Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
- Saharon Rosset
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Affiliation Data Analytics Research Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America
- Jason Blue-Smith
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Affiliation The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Oleg Balanovsky
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Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Shay Tzur
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Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Family Tree DNA, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- David Comas
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Affiliation Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- R. John Mitchell
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
- Lluis Quintana-Murci
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Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Paris, France , CNRS, URA3012, Paris, France
- Chris Tyler-Smith
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Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- R. Spencer Wells
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: genopubs@ngs.org
Affiliation The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- The Genographic Consortium
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
RSW conceived and designed the Genographic Project. DMB performed the experiments and wrote the paper. SR designed and applied the modeling methodology and statistical analysis. All of the authors and the other members of the Genographic Consortium contributed to the analysis of the data, the writing of the manuscript, and approved the final version.