About the Authors

Ge Zhang

Affiliation Human Genetics Division, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rebekah Karns

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Guangyun Sun

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Subba Rao Indugula

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hong Cheng

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Dubravka Havas-Augustin

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Natalija Novokmet

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Zijad Durakovic

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Sasa Missoni

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Ranajit Chakraborty

Affiliation Center for Computational Genomics, Institute of Applied Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Forth Worth, Texas, United States of America

Pavao Rudan

Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Ranjan Deka

ranjan.deka@uc.edu

Affiliation Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ RD PR RC. Performed the experiments: GS SRI HC. Analyzed the data: GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DH NN ZD SM PR. Wrote the paper: GZ RD RK RC.