About the Authors

Xiling Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiling Liu, Dingding Han, Mehmet Somel

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China, Big Data Decision Institute, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Forensic Sciences, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai, China

Dingding Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiling Liu, Dingding Han, Mehmet Somel

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China

Mehmet Somel

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiling Liu, Dingding Han, Mehmet Somel

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China, Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Xi Jiang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China

Haiyang Hu

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China

Patricia Guijarro

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China

Ning Zhang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China

Amanda Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Tobias Halene

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

John J. Ely

Affiliation MAEBIOS-TM, Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States of America

Chet C. Sherwood

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Patrick R. Hof

Affiliation Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Zilong Qiu

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Svante Pääbo

paabo@eva.mpg.de (SP); schahram.akbarian@mssm.edu (SA); khaitovich@eva.mpg.de (PK)

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Schahram Akbarian

paabo@eva.mpg.de (SP); schahram.akbarian@mssm.edu (SA); khaitovich@eva.mpg.de (PK)

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Philipp Khaitovich

paabo@eva.mpg.de (SP); schahram.akbarian@mssm.edu (SA); khaitovich@eva.mpg.de (PK)

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XL SP SA PK. Formal analysis: XL DH MS HH. Funding acquisition: XL DH PK. Investigation: DH XJ PG NZ. Methodology: XL DH MS. Project administration: XL PK. Resources: AM TH JJE CCS PRH ZQ. Supervision: XL PK. Validation: XL DH MS. Visualization: XL DH MS. Writing – original draft: XL DH MS PK. Writing – review & editing: SP SA.