About the Authors
- Vincenza Battaglia
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Viola Grugni
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Ugo Alessandro Perego
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Affiliations Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Norman Angerhofer
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Affiliation Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- J. Edgar Gomez-Palmieri
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Affiliation Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Scott Ray Woodward
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Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, AncestryDNA, Provo, Utah, United States of America
- Alessandro Achilli
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- Natalie Myres
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Affiliations Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, AncestryDNA, Provo, Utah, United States of America
- Antonio Torroni
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Ornella Semino
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* E-mail: ornella.semino@unipv.it
Affiliations Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Centro Interdipartimentale “Studi di Genere”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Competing Interests
SRW and NM 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: VB OS. Performed the experiments: VB NM VG. Analyzed the data: VB VG OS AA UAP NA SRW NM AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OS AT AA. Wrote the paper: VB OS. Performed sample collection: JEG-P. Read and provided comments on the manuscript: VB VG UAP NA JEG-P SRW AA NM AT OS.