About the Authors

Humberto Ossa

Affiliations Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Ciencias, Bogotá, Colombia, Laboratório de Genética y Biología Molecular, Bogotá, Colombia

Juliana Aquino

Affiliation DNA Diagnostic Laboratory (LDD), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rui Pereira

Affiliations i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto, Portugal

Adriana Ibarra

Affiliation IdentiGEN - Genetic Identification Laboratory and Research Group of Genetic Identification, Institute of Biology, School of Natural and Exact Sciences (FCEN), University of Antioquia, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

Rafael H Ossa

Affiliations Laboratório de Genética y Biología Molecular, Bogotá, Colombia, Universidad El Bosque, Facultad de Medicina, Bogotá, Colombia

Luz Adriana Pérez

Affiliation Laboratorio de genética humana, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Juan David Granda

Affiliation IdentiGEN - Genetic Identification Laboratory and Research Group of Genetic Identification, Institute of Biology, School of Natural and Exact Sciences (FCEN), University of Antioquia, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

Maria Claudia Lattig

Affiliation Laboratorio de genética humana, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Helena Groot

Affiliation Laboratorio de genética humana, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Elizeu Fagundes de Carvalho

Affiliation DNA Diagnostic Laboratory (LDD), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Leonor Gusmão

lgusmao@ipatimup.pt

Affiliations DNA Diagnostic Laboratory (LDD), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HO LG. Data curation: RP LG. Formal analysis: HO RP LG. Funding acquisition: HO EFC. Investigation: HO JA LAP. Methodology: HO JA RP LG. Project administration: LG. Resources: HO AI RHO JDG MCL HG EFC. Supervision: EFC LG. Visualization: HO LG. Writing – original draft: HO LG. Writing – review & editing: HO JA RP AI RHO LAP JDG MCL HG EFC LG.