About the Authors
- Jada Benn Torres
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* E-mail: jbenntor@nd.edu
Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
- Miguel G. Vilar
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Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Missions Programs, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America
- Gabriel A. Torres
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Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
- Jill B. Gaieski
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Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ricardo Bharath Hernandez
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Affiliation Santa Rosa First Peoples Community, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago
- Zoila E. Browne
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Affiliation The Garifuna Heritage Foundation Inc., Kingston, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Marlon Stevenson
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Affiliation The Garifuna Heritage Foundation Inc., Kingston, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Wendell Walters
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Affiliations The Garifuna Heritage Foundation Inc., Kingston, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sandy Bay Village, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Theodore G. Schurr
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Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- The Genographic Consortium
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¶Membership of the Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. This study was partly funded by IBM. However, there are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare, which is consistent with the Genographic Project protocol, which does not permit sponsors to commercially benefit from their support of the project. Furthermore, none of the funders had any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This situation does not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JBT MGV JBG TGS TGC. Performed the experiments: JBT MGV JBG TGS. Analyzed the data: JBT MGV TGS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TGS TGC. Wrote the paper: JBT GATC MGV JBG TGS. Coordinated recruitment efforts and provided information resources for sampling sites: GATC RBH ZB MS WW.