About the Authors

Adam H. Freedman

adamfreedman@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rena M. Schweizer

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eunjung Han

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Brian W. Davis

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ilan Gronau

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Pedro M. Silva

Affiliation CIBIO-UP, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal

Marco Galaverni

Affiliation ISPRA, Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy

Zhenxin Fan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Bioresources and Ecoenvironment, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Peter Marx

Affiliation Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Belen Lorente-Galdos

Affiliation ICREA at Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain

Oscar Ramirez

Affiliation ICREA at Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain

Farhad Hormozdiari

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Can Alkan

Affiliation Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Carles Vilà

Affiliation Estación Biológia de Doñana EBD-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Kevin Squire

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eli Geffen

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Josip Kusak

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Adam R. Boyko

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Heidi G. Parker

Affiliation ICREA at Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain

Clarence Lee

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Vasisht Tadigotla

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Adam Siepel

Affiliation Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Carlos D. Bustamante

Affiliation Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Timothy T. Harkins

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Stanley F. Nelson

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tomas Marques-Bonet

Affiliations ICREA at Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain, Centro Nacional de Analisis Genomico (CNAG/PCB), Baldiri Reixach 4–8, Barcelona, Spain

Elaine A. Ostrander

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert K. Wayne

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

John Novembre

Current address: Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

CL, VT, and TTH were employed by Life Technologies during the time the research was conducted. Construction and sequencing of SOLiD Exact Call Chemistry libraries were also provided by Life Technologies. Life Technologies Corporation had no input into the development of the study, article preparation or decision to publish. No other competing interests are declared.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHF CDB TTH SFN EAO TMB RKW JN. Performed the experiments: RMS BLG OR CV KS ARB HGP CL VT. Analyzed the data: AHF RMS IG EH BWD DODV PMS MG ZF PM BLG OR FH CA VT AS JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV EG JK EAO RKW IG. Wrote the paper: AHF JN RKW.