About the Authors

Begoña Martinez-Cruz

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Mihai Ioana

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

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

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Paula Sanz

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Ramona Ionescu

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Hospital and Clinic County Hospital, Braşov, Romania

Sandu Boengiu

Affiliation Faculty of Geography, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

Luba Kalaydjieva

Affiliation Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and Centre for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Horolma Pamjav

Affiliation DNA Laboratory, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Network of Forensic Science Institutes, Budapest, Hungary

Halyna Makukh

Affiliation Institute of Hereditary Pathology of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences, Lviv, Ukraine

Theo Plantinga

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

David Comas

Contributed equally to this work with: David Comas, Mihai G. Netea

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

Contributed equally to this work with: David Comas, Mihai G. Netea

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

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.