Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture

Marc Haber; Dominique Gauguier; Sonia Youhanna; Nick Patterson; Priya Moorjani; Laura R. Botigué; Daniel E. Platt; Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith; David F. Soria-Hernanz; R. Spencer Wells; Jaume Bertranpetit; Chris Tyler-Smith; David Comas; Pierre A. Zalloua

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003316

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Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture

Marc Haber,

Affiliations Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC–UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
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Dominique Gauguier,

Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, INSERM UMRS872, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France
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Sonia Youhanna,

Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
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Nick Patterson,

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Priya Moorjani,

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Laura R. Botigué,

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC–UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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Daniel E. Platt,

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America
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Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith,

Affiliation Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution and Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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David F. Soria-Hernanz,

Affiliation The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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R. Spencer Wells,

Affiliation The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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Jaume Bertranpetit,

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC–UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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Chris Tyler-Smith,

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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David Comas ,

Contributed equally to this work with: David Comas, Pierre A. Zalloua

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC–UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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Pierre A. Zalloua

Contributed equally to this work with: David Comas, Pierre A. Zalloua

* E-mail: pierre.zalloua@lau.edu.lb

Affiliations The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture

Marc Haber,
Dominique Gauguier,
Sonia Youhanna,
Nick Patterson,
Priya Moorjani,
Laura R. Botigué,
Daniel E. Platt,
Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith,
David F. Soria-Hernanz,
R. Spencer Wells

Published: February 28, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003316

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