About the Authors

Nivedita Awasthi Mishra

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

Cord Drögemüller

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

Vidhya Jagannathan

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

Irene Keller

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Bern, Switzerland

Daniel Wüthrich

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Bern, Switzerland, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Rémy Bruggmann

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Bern, Switzerland, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Julia Beck

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Chronix Biomedical, Göttingen, Germany

Ekkehard Schütz

Roles Resources

Affiliations Chronix Biomedical, Göttingen, Germany, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

Bertram Brenig

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

Steffi Demmel

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

Simon Moser

Roles Resources

Affiliation Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland

Heidi Signer-Hasler

Roles Resources

Affiliation Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland

Aldona Pieńkowska-Schelling

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Clinic for Reproductive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Claude Schelling

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Clinic for Reproductive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Marcos Sande

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Ronald Rongen

Roles Resources

Affiliation Dutch Belted Cattle Association, EM Eefde, The Netherlands

Stefan Rieder

Roles Resources

Affiliation Agroscope, Swiss National Stud Farm, Avenches, Switzerland

Robert N. Kelsh

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom

Nadia Mercader

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tosso Leeb

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tosso.leeb@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.