About the Authors
- GaneshPrasad ArunKumar
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Contributed equally to this work with: GaneshPrasad ArunKumar, David F. Soria-Hernanz, Valampuri John Kavitha
Affiliations The Genographic Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kelampakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- David F. Soria-Hernanz
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Contributed equally to this work with: GaneshPrasad ArunKumar, David F. Soria-Hernanz, Valampuri John Kavitha
Affiliations National Geographic Society, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Valampuri John Kavitha
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Contributed equally to this work with: GaneshPrasad ArunKumar, David F. Soria-Hernanz, Valampuri John Kavitha
Affiliations The Genographic Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Department of Biotechnology, Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India
- Varatharajan Santhakumari Arun
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Affiliation The Genographic Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Adhikarla Syama
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Affiliation The Genographic Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Kumaran Samy Ashokan
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Affiliation Nilgiri Adivasi Welfare Association, Kota Hall Road, Kothagiri, Tamil Nadu, India
- Kavandanpatti Thangaraj Gandhirajan
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Affiliation Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Koothapuli Vijayakumar
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Affiliation Nilgiri Adivasi Welfare Association, Kota Hall Road, Kothagiri, Tamil Nadu, India
- Muthuswamy Narayanan
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, St. Xaviers College, Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Mariakuttikan Jayalakshmi
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Affiliation The Genographic Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Janet S. Ziegle
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Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Ajay K. Royyuru
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Affiliation Computational Biology Group, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Laxmi Parida
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Affiliation Computational Biology Group, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- R. Spencer Wells
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Affiliation National Geographic Society, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Colin Renfrew
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Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Theodore G. Schurr
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Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Chris Tyler Smith
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Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Daniel E. Platt
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Affiliation Computational Biology Group, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Ramasamy Pitchappan
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* E-mail: pitchappanrm@yahoo.co.uk
Affiliations The Genographic Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kelampakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- The Genographic Consortium
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¶Consortium members are listed in Acknowledgements.
Competing Interests
Janet S. Ziegle is an employee of Applied Biosystems. Ajay K. Royyuru, Laxmi Parida and Daniell E. Platt are employees of IBM. Asif Javed and Pandikumar Swamikrishnan, both members of the Genographic Consortium are also employees of IBM. There is no patenting or profit making to be declared. 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: VJK AKR RSW RMP. Performed the experiments: GA VJK VSA AS KSA JSZ RMP. Analyzed the data: GA VJK DFSH LP CTS DEP RMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DFSH JSZ LP DEP. Wrote the paper: GA DFSH CR TGS CTS DEP RMP. Field work, sample identification and collection of samples and demographic data: GA VJK VSA AS KSA KTG KV MN MJ RMP.