About the Authors

Duy Ngoc Do

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Anders Bjerring Strathe

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, Danish Agriculture and Food Council, Pig Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tage Ostersen

Affiliation Danish Agriculture and Food Council, Pig Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Just Jensen

Affiliation Aarhus University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Tjele, Denmark

Thomas Mark

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Haja N Kadarmideen

hajak@sund.ku.dk

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HNK. Performed the experiments: DND TO. Analyzed the data: DND TO ABS HNK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DND TO HNK TM JJ. Wrote the paper: DND ABS TO JJ TM HNK. Bioinformatic and systems genetic analyses and biological interpretations: DND HNK.