About the Authors

Annette M. McCoy

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

mccoya@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Samantha K. Beeson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Population Medicine Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Carl-Johan Rubin

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Leif Andersson

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Paul Caputo

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paul Caputo, DVM, Pompano Beach, Florida, United States of America

Sigrid Lykkjen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Alison Moore

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Moore Equine Services, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

Richard J. Piercy

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and Services, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

James R. Mickelson

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Molly E. McCue

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Population Medicine Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AMM and MEM are named as inventors on a pending patent application for the predictive model described herein, submitted by the University of Minnesota.