About the Authors

Martijn F. L. Derks

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

martijn.derks@wur.nl

Affiliation Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Marcos S. Lopes

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Topigs Norsvin Research Center, Beuningen, the Netherlands, Topigs Norsvin, Curitiba, Brazil

Mirte Bosse

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Ole Madsen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Bert Dibbits

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Barbara Harlizius

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Topigs Norsvin Research Center, Beuningen, the Netherlands

Martien A. M. Groenen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Hendrik-Jan Megens

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

Affiliation Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

MSL and BH are employees of Topigs Norsvin Research Center, a research institute closely related to one of the funders (Topigs Norsvin). All authors declare that the results are presented in full and as such present no conflict of interest. The other Breed4Food partners Cobb Europe, CRV, Hendrix Genetics, declare to have no competing interests for this study.