About the Authors

Mia Olsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Mia Olsson, Katarina Tengvall

Katarina.Tengvall@imbim.uu.se (KT); Mia.Olsson@ki.se (MO); kersli@broadinstitute.org (KLT)

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

Katarina Tengvall

Contributed equally to this work with: Mia Olsson, Katarina Tengvall

Katarina.Tengvall@imbim.uu.se (KT); Mia.Olsson@ki.se (MO); kersli@broadinstitute.org (KLT)

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Marcel Frankowiack

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

Marcin Kierczak

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Kerstin Bergvall

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Erik Axelsson

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Linda Tintle

Affiliation Wurtsboro Veterinary Clinic, Wurtsboro, New York, United States of America

Eliane Marti

Affiliations Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Division of Clinical Dermatology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Dermfocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern Switzerland

Petra Roosje

Affiliations Dermfocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tosso Leeb

Affiliations Dermfocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern Switzerland, Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Åke Hedhammar

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Lennart Hammarström

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Katarina.Tengvall@imbim.uu.se (KT); Mia.Olsson@ki.se (MO); kersli@broadinstitute.org (KLT)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO KT LH KLT. Performed the experiments: KT MO MF. Analyzed the data: KT MO MK EA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO KT KB LT EM PR TL LH KLT AH. Wrote the paper: KT MO MK AH LH KLT TL.