About the Authors

William J. Pestle

w.pestle@miami.edu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America

Brooke E. Crowley

Affiliation Departments of Geology and Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Matthew T. Weirauch

Affiliation Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, and Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJP BEC. Performed the experiments: WJP BEC. Analyzed the data: WJP BEC MTW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJP BEC MTW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: WJP BEC MTW.