About the Authors
- Marta Melé
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¶‡ MM completed this work during an internship at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
Affiliation IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Asif Javed
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Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM T J Watson Research, Yorktown, New York, United States of America
- Marc Pybus
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Affiliation IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Francesc Calafell
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Affiliations IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Laxmi Parida
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* E-mail: parida@us.ibm.com (LP); jaume.bertranpetit@upf.edu (JB)
Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM T J Watson Research, Yorktown, New York, United States of America
- Jaume Bertranpetit
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* E-mail: parida@us.ibm.com (LP); jaume.bertranpetit@upf.edu (JB)
Affiliations IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- The Genographic Consortium
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¶Membership of the Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the paper: MM LP JB. Conceived and designed the study: JB, FC. Discussed the results: JB, MM, AJ, MP, FC, LP. Contributed in writing the the software: MM, AJ, MP, LP. Performed the validation and tuning: MM, MP. Analyzed the HapMap3 data: MM, AJ. Laid the groundwork for the study: The Genographic Consortium.