About the Authors

Ceiridwen J. Edwards

Affiliations Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Catarina Ginja

Affiliations Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Departamento de Genética, Melhoramento Animal e Reprodução, Instituto Nacional dos Recursos Biológicos, Fonte Boa, Vale de Santarém, Portugal

Juha Kantanen

Affiliation Biotechnology and Food Research, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

Lucía Pérez-Pardal

Affiliation Area de Genética y Reproducción Animal, SERIDA, Gijón, Spain

Anne Tresset

Affiliation Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, CNRS Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Frauke Stock

Affiliation Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

European Cattle Genetic Diversity Consortium

For the full list of authors of this consortium, please see the Acknowledgments section.

Luis T. Gama

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Melhoramento Animal e Reprodução, Instituto Nacional dos Recursos Biológicos, Fonte Boa, Vale de Santarém, Portugal

M. Cecilia T. Penedo

Affiliation Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Daniel G. Bradley

Affiliation Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Johannes A. Lenstra

J.A.Lenstra@uu.nl

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Isaäc J. Nijman

Current address: Genome Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJE CG JK LP-P MCTP DGB JAL IJN. Performed the experiments: CJE CG JK LP-P JAL IJN. Analyzed the data: CJE CG JK LP-P AT MCTP DGB JAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS MCTP DGB JAL. Wrote the paper: CJE CG JAL. Commented on manuscript: LP-P AT LTG.