About the Authors

Dana S Mosher

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Pascale Quignon

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carlos D Bustamante

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Nathan B Sutter

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cathryn S Mellersh

Affiliation Animal Health Trust, Center for Preventive Medicine, Newmarket, United Kingdom

Heidi G Parker

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Elaine A Ostrander

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eostrand@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DSM and EAO conceived and designed the experiments. DSM and PQ performed the experiments. CDB, HGP, and NBS analyzed the data. DSM and CSM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. All authors contributed to writing the paper. EAO was the principal investigator and oversaw experimental design and analysis.