About the Authors

David A. Magee

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Magee, Maria Taraktsoglou

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Maria Taraktsoglou

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Magee, Maria Taraktsoglou

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Kate E. Killick

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Nicolas C. Nalpas

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

John A. Browne

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Stephen D. E. Park

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Kevin M. Conlon

Affiliation UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

David J. Lynn

Affiliation Animal Bioscience Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland

Karsten Hokamp

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

Stephen V. Gordon

Affiliations Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Eamonn Gormley

Affiliation Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Immunology Research Centre, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

David E. MacHugh

david.machugh@ucd.ie

Affiliations Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAM MT JAB EG DEM. Performed the experiments: DAM MT NN JAB KMC. Analyzed the data: DAM MT KEK NN JAB SDEP DJL KH. Wrote the paper: DAM MT KEK NN DJL KH SVG EG DEM.