About the Authors
- Marc Haber
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Affiliations The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon, Evolutionary Biology Institute, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
- Daniel E. Platt
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Affiliation Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America
- Maziar Ashrafian Bonab
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Affiliation Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Sonia C. Youhanna
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- David F. Soria-Hernanz
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Institute, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America
- Begoña Martínez-Cruz
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Affiliation Evolutionary Biology Institute, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
- Bouchra Douaihy
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh
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Affiliation The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Hoshang Rafatpanah
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Affiliation Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Mohsen Ghanbari
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Affiliation Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- John Whale
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Affiliation Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Oleg Balanovsky
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Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- R. Spencer Wells
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Affiliation The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America
- David Comas
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Affiliation Evolutionary Biology Institute, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
- Chris Tyler-Smith
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Pierre A. Zalloua
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* E-mail: pierre.zalloua@lau.edu.lb
Affiliations The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- The Genographic Consortium
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¶Membership of the Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Daniel E Platt is an employee if IBM. With regard to the Genographic Consortium: Janet Ziegle is employed by Applied Biosystems, and Pandihumar Swamikrishnan, Asif Javed, Laximi Parida and Ajay K. Royyuru are employed by IBM. There are no patents or products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MH DP PZ. Performed the experiments: MH SY BD MGS. Analyzed the data: MH DP MAB DSH BMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAB HR MG OB JW. Wrote the paper: MH PZ. Revised the manuscript: RSW DC CTS.