About the Authors

Mia Olsson

mia.olsson@imbim.uu.se (MO); wvc@warwick.net (LT); kersli@broadinstitute.org (KL-T)

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Jennifer R. S. Meadows

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. S. Meadows, Katarina Truvé, Gerli Rosengren Pielberg, Francesca Puppo

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Katarina Truvé

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. S. Meadows, Katarina Truvé, Gerli Rosengren Pielberg, Francesca Puppo

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Gerli Rosengren Pielberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. S. Meadows, Katarina Truvé, Gerli Rosengren Pielberg, Francesca Puppo

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Francesca Puppo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. S. Meadows, Katarina Truvé, Gerli Rosengren Pielberg, Francesca Puppo

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Evan Mauceli

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Javier Quilez

Affiliation Department of Animal and Food Science, Veterinary Molecular Genetics Service, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Noriko Tonomura

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Giordana Zanna

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Maria José Docampo

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Anna Bassols

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Anne C. Avery

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Elinor K. Karlsson

Affiliations Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anne Thomas

Affiliation ANTAGENE Laboratory, Limonest, France

Daniel L. Kastner

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff

Affiliation Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Matthew T. Webster

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Armand Sanchez

Affiliation Department of Animal and Food Science, Veterinary Molecular Genetics Service, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Åke Hedhammar

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Elaine F. Remmers

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leif Andersson

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Lluis Ferrer

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Linda Tintle

mia.olsson@imbim.uu.se (MO); wvc@warwick.net (LT); kersli@broadinstitute.org (KL-T)

Affiliation Wurtsboro Veterinary Clinic, Wurtsboro, New York, United States of America

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

mia.olsson@imbim.uu.se (MO); wvc@warwick.net (LT); kersli@broadinstitute.org (KL-T)

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors KL-T, MO, and LT have filed a patent for development of a genetic test.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO JRSM KT GRP FP AB ACA DLK AS ÅH EFR LA LF LT KLT. Performed the experiments: MO JRSM GRP FP JQ NT GZ MJD ACA LF. Analyzed the data: MO JRSM KT GRP FP EM JQ NT GZ EKK EBR MTW KLT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ AB ACA AT ÅH LA LF LT KLT. Wrote the paper: MO JRSM LT KLT.