About the Authors

Wolfgang Haak

wolfgang.haak@adelaide.edu.au

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Oleg Balanovsky

Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Juan J. Sanchez

Affiliation National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Canary Islands Delegation, Campus de Ciencias de la Salud, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

Sergey Koshel

Affiliation Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Valery Zaporozhchenko

Affiliations Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Centre for Drug Evaluation, Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Christina J. Adler

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Clio S. I. Der Sarkissian

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Guido Brandt

Affiliation Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Carolin Schwarz

Affiliation Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Nicole Nicklisch

Affiliation Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Veit Dresely

Affiliation Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archaeologie und Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (Saale), Germany

Barbara Fritsch

Affiliation Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archaeologie und Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (Saale), Germany

Elena Balanovska

Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Richard Villems

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Harald Meller

Affiliation Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archaeologie und Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (Saale), Germany

Kurt W. Alt

Affiliation Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Alan Cooper

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

the Genographic Consortium

Membership for the Genographic Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments section.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: WH OB JJS KWA AC. Performed the experiments: WH OB CJA. Analyzed the data: WH OB SK CJA CSIDS CS NN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH JJS SK VZ GB VD BF EB RV HM KWA. Wrote the paper: WH OB JJS CJA BF AC.