About the Authors

Alexandros Heraclides

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandros Heraclides, Evy Bashiardes

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Genetics and The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus

Evy Bashiardes

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandros Heraclides, Evy Bashiardes

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Genetics and The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Eva Fernández-Domínguez

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Stefania Bertoncini

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Marios Chimonas

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Genetics and The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Vasilis Christofi

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Genetics and The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Jonathan King

Affiliation Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Bruce Budowle

Affiliations Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Panayiotis Manoli

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Genetics and The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Marios A. Cariolou

cariolou@cing.ac.cy

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Genetics and The Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MAC. Data curation: MAC. Formal analysis: AH EFD SB JK. Funding acquisition: MAC. Methodology: AH EFD SB JK PM VC MC EB. Project administration: MAC. Software: AH EFD SB JK. Writing – original draft: AH EB. Writing – review & editing: AH EB EFD SB BB MAC PM VC MC JK.