About the Authors

Arnaud Sartelet

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Tom Druet

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Charles Michaux

Affiliation Unit of Bioinformatics, Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Corinne Fasquelle

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Sarah Géron

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Nico Tamma

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Zhiyan Zhang

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Wouter Coppieters

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Michel Georges

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Carole Charlier

carole.charlier@ulg.ac.be

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG CC. Performed the experiments: AS CF SG NT. Analyzed the data: AS TD CM ZZ MG CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TD WC. Wrote the paper: AS MG CC.