About the Authors

Sandra Andorf

Affiliations Department Genetics and Biometry, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Group, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany, Department of Medicine, Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Rhonda C. Meyer

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Joachim Selbig

Affiliation Bioinformatics Chair, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Thomas Altmann

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Dirk Repsilber

repsilber@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliation Department Genetics and Biometry, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Group, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: SA RM. Wrote the paper: SA RCM TA JS DR. Conception and design of the study: SA RCM TA JS DR. Interpretation of data: SA TA DR. Finally approved the version to be published: SA RCM JS TA DR.