About the Authors

Cord Drögemüller

Cord.Droegemueller@itz.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Doreen Becker

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Barbara Kessler

Affiliation Chair for Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis, Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Elisabeth Kemter

Affiliation Chair for Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis, Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Jens Tetens

Affiliation Institute for Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Konrad Jurina

Affiliation Tierklinik Haar, Haar, Germany

Karin Hultin Jäderlund

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, Norway

Annette Flagstad

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Michele Perloski

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

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Affiliations Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Kaspar Matiasek

Affiliation Neuropathology Laboratory, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CD. Performed the experiments: DB BK EK KJ KHJ AF MP KM. Analyzed the data: CD DB JT KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLT. Wrote the paper: CD.