About the Authors

B. Mohan Reddy

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bmr@isical.ac.in

Affiliation Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad, India

B. T. Langstieh

Affiliations Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad, India, Department of Anthropology, Northeast Hill University, Shillong, India

Vikrant Kumar

Affiliations Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad, India, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

T. Nagaraja

Affiliation Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad, India

A. N. S. Reddy

Affiliation Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad, India

Aruna Meka

Affiliation Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad, India

A. G. Reddy

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

K. Thangaraj

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Lalji Singh

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BR BL. Performed the experiments: AR BL TN AR. Analyzed the data: VK AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT BR LS. Wrote the paper: BR VK. Other: Collected blood samples: BL. Commented on the manuscript and participated in the discussions: KT LS.