About the Authors

Alexia Cardona

ac812@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Luca Pagani

Affiliations Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Tiago Antao

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Daniel J. Lawson

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Christina A. Eichstaedt

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bryndis Yngvadottir

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ma Than Than Shwe

Affiliation National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Joseph Wee

Affiliation National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Irene Gallego Romero

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Srilakshmi Raj

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mait Metspalu

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Richard Villems

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Eske Willerslev

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Chris Tyler-Smith

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Boris A. Malyarchuk

Affiliation Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia

Miroslava V. Derenko

Affiliation Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia

Toomas Kivisild

Affiliations Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA AC TK DL LP IGR CT-S. Performed the experiments: TA AC CE TK LP. Analyzed the data: AC CE TK DL LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD DL BM MTTS JW. Wrote the paper: TA AC MD CE TK DL BM MM LP SR IGR MTTS CT-S RV JW EW BY.