About the Authors
- Begoña Martinez-Cruz
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Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Mihai Ioana
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Affiliations Department of Medicine and Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Genetics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, Romania
- Francesc Calafell
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Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Lara R. Arauna
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Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Paula Sanz
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Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Ramona Ionescu
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Hospital and Clinic County Hospital, Braşov, Romania
- Sandu Boengiu
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Affiliation Faculty of Geography, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
- Luba Kalaydjieva
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Affiliation Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and Centre for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Horolma Pamjav
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Affiliation DNA Laboratory, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Network of Forensic Science Institutes, Budapest, Hungary
- Halyna Makukh
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Affiliation Institute of Hereditary Pathology of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences, Lviv, Ukraine
- Theo Plantinga
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Affiliation Department of Medicine and Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Jos W. M. van der Meer
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Affiliation Department of Medicine and Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- David Comas
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Contributed equally to this work with: David Comas, Mihai G. Netea
* E-mail: david.comas@upf.edu (DC); m.netea@aig.umcn.nl (MGN)
Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Mihai G. Netea
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Contributed equally to this work with: David Comas, Mihai G. Netea
* E-mail: david.comas@upf.edu (DC); m.netea@aig.umcn.nl (MGN)
Affiliation Department of Medicine and Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- the Genographic Consortium
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¶Membership of the Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DC MGN. Performed the experiments: BMC PS TP. Analyzed the data: BMC FC LRA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI RI SB LK HP HM. Wrote the paper: BMC FC MI JvdM DC MGN.