About the Authors

Clio Der Sarkissian

clio.dersarkissian@gmail.com

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

Oleg Balanovsky

Affiliations Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Guido Brandt

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

Valery Khartanovich

Affiliation Kunstkamera Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Alexandra Buzhilova

Affiliation Institute for Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Sergey Koshel

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

Valery Zaporozhchenko

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

Detlef Gronenborn

Affiliation Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz, Germany

Vyacheslav Moiseyev

Affiliation Kunstkamera Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Eugen Kolpakov

Affiliation Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia

Vladimir Shumkin

Affiliation Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia

Kurt W. Alt

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

Elena Balanovska

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

Alan Cooper

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

Wolfgang Haak

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

the Genographic Consortium

Membership of the Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CDS WH OB AC. Performed the experiments: CDS WH GB. Analyzed the data: CDS WH OB VZ SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CDS WH OB VK AB SK VZ DG VM EK VS KWA EB AC. Wrote the paper: CDS DG WH AC.