About the Authors

Xiaochen Sun

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Long Qu

Affiliations Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Dorian J. Garrick

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jack C. M. Dekkers

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Rohan L. Fernando

rohan@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XS LQ DJG JCMD RLF. Performed the experiments: XS LQ. Analyzed the data: XS LQ. Wrote the paper: XS LQ DJG JCMD RLF.