About the Authors

Ugo A. Perego

Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo A. Perego, Hovirag Lancioni, Maribel Tribaldos

Affiliation Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Hovirag Lancioni

Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo A. Perego, Hovirag Lancioni, Maribel Tribaldos

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Maribel Tribaldos

Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo A. Perego, Hovirag Lancioni, Maribel Tribaldos

Affiliation Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama

Norman Angerhofer

Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Ancestry, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Jayne E. Ekins

Affiliation Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Anna Olivieri

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Scott R. Woodward

Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Ancestry, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Juan Miguel Pascale

Affiliation Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama

Richard Cooke

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apdo, Ancón, Panama

Jorge Motta

Affiliation Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama

Alessandro Achilli

alessandro.achilli@unipg.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Competing Interests

NA and SRW are employed by a commercial company: Ancestry.com. 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: UAP MT SRW JMP JM AA. Performed the experiments: UAP HL AO. Analyzed the data: UAP MT NA AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT SRW JMP JM AA. Wrote the paper: UAP JEE RC JM AA. Performed the collection of biological samples: UAP MT JMP JM AA.