About the Authors

Bayazit Yunusbayev

Contributed equally to this work with: Bayazit Yunusbayev, Mait Metspalu

bayazit@ebc.ee, yunusbb@inbox.ru

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Mait Metspalu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bayazit Yunusbayev, Mait Metspalu

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ene Metspalu

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Albert Valeev

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Sergei Litvinov

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Ruslan Valiev

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Vita Akhmetova

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Elena Balanovska

Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, RAMS, Moscow, Russia

Oleg Balanovsky

Affiliations Research Centre for Medical Genetics, RAMS, Moscow, Russia, Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, RAS, Moscow, Russia

Shahlo Turdikulova

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Dilbar Dalimova

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Pagbajabyn Nymadawa

Affiliation Mongolian Academy of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Ardeshir Bahmanimehr

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Hovhannes Sahakyan

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Kristiina Tambets

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Sardana Fedorova

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia

Nikolay Barashkov

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia

Irina Khidiyatova

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Evelin Mihailov

Affiliations Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Gene Technology Workgroup, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Rita Khusainova

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Larisa Damba

Affiliation Institute of Internal Medicine, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Miroslava Derenko

Affiliation Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia

Boris Malyarchuk

Affiliation Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia

Ludmila Osipova

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Mikhail Voevoda

Affiliations Institute of Internal Medicine, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Levon Yepiskoposyan

Affiliation Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Toomas Kivisild

Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Elza Khusnutdinova

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

Richard Villems

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BY MM RVi. Performed the experiments: BY MM. Analyzed the data: BY MM AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV SL RVa VA EB OB ST DD PN AB HS KT SF NB IK EMi RK LD MD BM LO MV LY EK RVi. Wrote the paper: BY MM RVi TK. Coorinated and prepared samples for genotyping and managed data generation: EMe. Discussed and critically edited the manuscript: TK.