About the Authors
- Lutz Roewer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lutz Roewer, Michael Nothnagel
* E-mail: lutz.roewer@charite.de
Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Department of Forensic Genetics, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Michael Nothnagel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lutz Roewer, Michael Nothnagel
Affiliations Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
- Leonor Gusmão
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Affiliations Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Universidade Federal do Pará, Laboratório de Genética Humana e Médica, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Veronica Gomes
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Miguel González
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Daniel Corach
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Affiliation Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, Servicio de Huellas Digitales Geneticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Andrea Sala
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Affiliation Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, Servicio de Huellas Digitales Geneticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Evguenia Alechine
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Affiliation Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica, Servicio de Huellas Digitales Geneticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Teresinha Palha
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Affiliation Universidade Federal do Pará, Laboratório de Genética Humana e Médica, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Ney Santos
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Affiliation Universidade Federal do Pará, Laboratório de Genética Humana e Médica, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Andrea Ribeiro-dos-Santos
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Affiliation Universidade Federal do Pará, Laboratório de Genética Humana e Médica, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Maria Geppert
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Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Department of Forensic Genetics, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Sascha Willuweit
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Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Department of Forensic Genetics, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Marion Nagy
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Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Department of Forensic Genetics, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Sarah Zweynert
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Miriam Baeta
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Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Carolina Núñez
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Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Begoña Martínez-Jarreta
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Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Fabricio González-Andrade
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Affiliation Science and Technology Department, Ministry of Public Health, Quito, Ecuador
- Elizeu Fagundes de Carvalho
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Diagnósticos por DNA, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Dayse Aparecida da Silva
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Diagnósticos por DNA, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Juan José Builes
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Affiliations GENES Ltda., Laboratorio Genetica Forense y Huellas Digitales del DNA, Medellín, Colombia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Daniel Turbón
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Affiliation Unitat d'Antropologia, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Ana Maria Lopez Parra
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Genetica Forense, Departamento de Toxicología y Legislación Sanitaria, Facultat de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Genetica Forense, Departamento de Toxicología y Legislación Sanitaria, Facultat de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Ulises Toscanini
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Affiliation PRICAI–Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Lisbeth Borjas
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Genetica Molecular, Unidad de Genetica Medica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Claudia Barletta
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Affiliation Laboratorio de Genética Humana, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, UNMSM–Universidad, Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
- Elizabeth Ewart
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Sidney Santos
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Affiliation Universidade Federal do Pará, Laboratório de Genética Humana e Médica, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Michael Krawczak
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: L Roewer, M Nothnagel, L Gusmão, D Corach, A Ribeiro-dos-Santos, M Nagy, B Martínez-Jarreta, F González-Andrade, E Fagundes de Carvalho, JJ Builes, D Turbón, E Arroyo-Pardo, S Santos, M Krawczak. Performed the experiments: V Gomes, M González, A Sala, E Alechine, T Palha, N Santos, M Geppert, S Zweynert, M Baeta, C Núñez, DA da Silva, AM Lopez Parra, U Toscanini, L Borjas, C Barletta. Analyzed the data: L Roewer, M Nothnagel, L Gusmão, D Corach, S Willuweit, M Krawczak. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: L Roewer, M Nothnagel, L Gusmão, D Corach, B Martínez-Jarreta, E Fagundes de Carvalho, J J Builes, E Arroyo-Pardo, L Borjas, S Santos, M Krawczak. Wrote the paper: L Roewer, M Nothnagel, L Gusmão, E Ewart, M Krawczak.