About the Authors
- Chandana Basu Mallick
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Contributed equally to this work with: Chandana Basu Mallick, Florin Mircea Iliescu
* E-mail: cbm@ebc.ee (CBM); tk331@cam.ac.uk (TK)
Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Florin Mircea Iliescu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Chandana Basu Mallick, Florin Mircea Iliescu
Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Märt Möls
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Affiliations Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Sarah Hill
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Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Rakesh Tamang
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Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
- Gyaneshwer Chaubey
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Affiliation Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Rie Goto
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Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Simon Y. W. Ho
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Irene Gallego Romero
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Current address: Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Federica Crivellaro
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Current address: National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”, Rome, Italy.
Affiliation Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Georgi Hudjashov
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Niraj Rai
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Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
- Mait Metspalu
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
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Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Ramasamy Pitchappan
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Affiliation Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Chettinad Health City, Chennai, India
- Lalji Singh
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Affiliations CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
- Marta Mirazon-Lahr
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Affiliation Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Kumarasamy Thangaraj
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Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
- Richard Villems
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Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
- Toomas Kivisild
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* E-mail: cbm@ebc.ee (CBM); tk331@cam.ac.uk (TK)
Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CBM FMI TK. Performed the experiments: CBM FMI RT. Analyzed the data: CBM FMI MMö RG GC SYWH TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IGR FC NR MMe CGNMT RP MML LS KT RV. Wrote the paper: CBM FMI TK. Supervised the statistical analyses related to genotype-phenotype association study: MMö. Gave suggestions and advice for the logistic regression analysis: RG CGNMT. Helped in performing the selection tests for sequence data using COSI package: GH. Supervised results and discussion related to BEAST analysis: SYWH. Critical editing of the manuscript: SH SYWH RV.