About the Authors

Ayken Askapuli

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ayken.askapuli@wisc.edu (AA); saitounr@nig.ac.jp (NS)

Affiliations School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Miguel Vilar

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Humberto Garcia-Ortiz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Maxat Zhabagin

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliations School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Zhaxylyk Sabitov

Roles Investigation

Affiliation L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Ainur Akilzhanova

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Erlan Ramanculov

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan

Uli Schamiloglu

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Angelica Martinez-Hernandez

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Cecilia Contreras-Cubas

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Francisco Barajas-Olmos

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Theodore G. Schurr

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhaxybay Zhumadilov

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Marlen Flores-Huacuja

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Lorena Orozco

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software

Affiliation Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

John Hawks

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Naruya Saitou

Roles Writing – review & editing

ayken.askapuli@wisc.edu (AA); saitounr@nig.ac.jp (NS)

Affiliations Population Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Advanced Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa Ken, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.