About the Authors

Dale J Hedges

Contributed equally to this work with: Dale J Hedges, Richard Cordaux

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio-Modular Microsystems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Richard Cordaux

Contributed equally to this work with: Dale J Hedges, Richard Cordaux

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio-Modular Microsystems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Jinchuan Xing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio-Modular Microsystems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

David J Witherspoon

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Alan R Rogers

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Lynn B Jorde

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Mark A Batzer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mbatzer@lsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio-Modular Microsystems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DJH and RC conceived and designed the experiments. DJH performed the experiments. DJH, RC, JX, DJW, ARR, LBJ, and MAB analyzed the data. LBJ and MAB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. DJH and RC wrote the paper.