About the Authors

Xia Shen

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Statistics Unit, School of Technology and Business Studies, Dalarna University, Borlänge, Sweden

Mats Pettersson

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

Lars Rönnegård

Affiliations Statistics Unit, School of Technology and Business Studies, Dalarna University, Borlänge, Sweden, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Örjan Carlborg

orjan.carlborg@slu.se

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XS LR ÖC. Performed the experiments: XS MP LR ÖC. Analyzed the data: XS MP LR ÖC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XS LR. Wrote the paper: XS MP LR ÖC.