About the Authors
- Hazel Wilkie
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Affiliation The Roslin Institute & R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
- Anton Gossner
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Affiliation The Roslin Institute & R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
- Stephen Bishop
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† Deceased.
Affiliation The Roslin Institute & R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
- John Hopkins
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* E-mail: john.hopkins@ed.ac.uk
Affiliation The Roslin Institute & R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
This project was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Institute Strategic Programme Grant to The Roslin Institute and by a BBSRC Industrial CASE scholarship to JH and SB, for HW, supported by Sheep Improved Genetics Ltd (no funding was obtained from SIG Ltd) and AHDB Beef and Lamb (Grant BB/J012653/1). This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data. The initial work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through its ‘Post-Genomics and Proteomics’ programme (grant NE/D000645/1).
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JH SB AG. Performed the experiments: HW JH. Analyzed the data: HW AG JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH AG. Wrote the paper: JH AG HW. Played a major role in obtaining funding: SB.