About the Authors
- Kari J. Ekenstedt
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kari J. Ekenstedt, Doreen Becker, Cord Drögemüller, James R. Mickelson
* E-mail: eken0003@umn.edu
Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Doreen Becker
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kari J. Ekenstedt, Doreen Becker, Cord Drögemüller, James R. Mickelson
Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Katie M. Minor
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- G. Diane Shelton
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Affiliation Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Edward E. Patterson
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Tim Bley
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Affiliation Small Animal Clinic, Neruology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Anna Oevermann
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Affiliation Neurocenter, Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Thomas Bilzer
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Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Tosso Leeb
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Cord Drögemüller
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kari J. Ekenstedt, Doreen Becker, Cord Drögemüller, James R. Mickelson
Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- James R. Mickelson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kari J. Ekenstedt, Doreen Becker, Cord Drögemüller, James R. Mickelson
Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Competing Interests
Both the University of Minnesota and the University of Bern are offering a genotyping test for LPN1 in their respective laboratories and proceeds from these tests go toward ongoing canine genetic research. The authors declare that no other competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KJE DB GDS EEP CD JRM. Performed the experiments: KJE DB KMM. Analyzed the data: KJE DB KMM TL CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TBl AO TBi JRM. Wrote the paper: KJE KMM CD JRM. Developed phenotypic criteria and selected samples for genome-wide SNP genotyping: KJE KMM GDS. Contributed to the preparation of the paper: DB GDS EEP TL.