About the Authors

Rosa Fregel

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Fregel, Krish Seetah

rfregel@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain, Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Krish Seetah

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Fregel, Krish Seetah

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Eva Betancor

Affiliation Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas, Las Palmas, Spain

Nicolás M. Suárez

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

Diego Calaon

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, IDEAS Interdepartmental Centre, Ca'Foscari University, Venice, Italy

Saša Čaval

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Anwar Janoo

Affiliation Department of History, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius

Jose Pestano

Senior author.

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain, Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas, Las Palmas, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RF KS EB NMS DC SC AJ JP. Performed the experiments: RF EB NMS JP. Analyzed the data: RF KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS JP. Wrote the paper: RF KS EB NMS DC SC AJ JP.