About the Authors

Evelyn K. Guevara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

evelyn.guevara@helsinki.fi (EKG); antti.sajantila@helsinki.fi (AS)

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jukka U. Palo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Forensic Genetics Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Sanni Översti

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jonathan L. King

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Maria Seidel

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Monika Stoljarova

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Frank R. Wendt

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Magdalena M. Bus

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Anna Guengerich

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Warren B. Church

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, United States of America

Sonia Guillén

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Mallqui, San Isidro, Lima, Peru

Lutz Roewer

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bruce Budowle

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Antti Sajantila

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

evelyn.guevara@helsinki.fi (EKG); antti.sajantila@helsinki.fi (AS)

Affiliations Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Forensic Medicine Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.