About the Authors

Petra E. Deane-Coe

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

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erin T. Chu

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

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Slavney

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam R. Boyko

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

adam@embarkvet.com (ARB); asams@embarkvet.com (AJS)

‡ These authors jointly directed this work.

Affiliations Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Aaron J. Sams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

adam@embarkvet.com (ARB); asams@embarkvet.com (AJS)

‡ These authors jointly directed this work.

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

PED, ETC, AS, ARB and AJS are employees of Embark Veterinary, a canine DNA testing company which will offer commercial testing for the variant described in this study. ARB is co-founder and part owner of Embark.