About the Authors

Ying Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Guo, Xiaorong Gu, Zheya Sheng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Xiaorong Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Guo, Xiaorong Gu, Zheya Sheng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Zheya Sheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Guo, Xiaorong Gu, Zheya Sheng

Current address: Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Division of Computational Genetics, Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Yanqiang Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Chenglong Luo

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Ranran Liu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Hao Qu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Dingming Shu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jie Wen

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans

Affiliation Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Örjan Carlborg

Affiliation Division of Computational Genetics, Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Yiqiang Zhao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Xiaoxiang Hu

huxx@cau.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Ning Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG XG ZS ÖC NL XH. Performed the experiments: YG RPMAC. Analyzed the data: YG XG ZS YW YZ RL JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG ZS CL HQ DS RL JW. Wrote the paper: YG ÖC XH. Provided comments on the manuscript: YG XG ZS YW CL RL HQ DS JW RPMAC ÖC YZ NL XH.