About the Authors

Kim Jäderkvist Fegraeus

kim.jaderkvist@slu.se

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Chameli Lawrence

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Katrine Petäjistö

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Maria K. Johansson

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Maja Wiklund

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

Christina Olsson

Affiliation The Swedish Trotting Association, Bromma, Sweden

Leif Andersson

Affiliations Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Lisa S Andersson

Affiliation Capilet Genetics AB, Västerås, Sweden

Knut H. Røed

Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Carl-Fredrik Ihler

Affiliation Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Eric Strand

Affiliation Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Gabriella Lindgren

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Lindgren, Brandon D. Velie

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Brandon D. Velie

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Lindgren, Brandon D. Velie

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

We have the following interests. Lisa S. Andersson is employed by Capilet Genetics AB and Christina Olsson by The Swedish Trotting Association. Leif Andersson, Lisa S. Andersson and Gabriella Lindgren are co-inventors on a granted patent concerning commercial testing of the DMRT3 mutation: A method to predict the pattern of locomotion in horses. PCT EP12 747 875.8. European patent registration date: 2011-05-05, US patent registration date: 2011-08-03. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KJF CFI ES GL BDV. Data curation: KJF CL KP BDV. Formal analysis: KJF CL BDV. Funding acquisition: CO CFI ES GL. Investigation: KJF CL KP MKJ MW BDV. Methodology: KJF CL KP CFI ES GL BDV. Project administration: KJF CFI ES GL BDV. Resources: KHR CFI ES GL. Software: KJF ES CFI GL BDV. Supervision: KJF CFI ES GL BDV. Validation: KJF CFI ES GL BDV. Visualization: KJF CL BDV. Writing – original draft: KJF CL BDV. Writing – review & editing: KJF CL KP MKJ CO LA LSA KHR CFI ES GL BDV.