About the Authors

Christopher A. Jenkins

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chris.jenkins@aht.org.uk

Affiliation Kennel Club Genetics Centre, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Lajos Kalmar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Kaspar Matiasek

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Clinical & Comparative Neuropathology, Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, München, Germany

Lorenzo Mari

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neurology/Neurosurgery Service, Centre for Small Animal Studies, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Kaisa Kyöstilä

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Biosciences, and Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

Hannes Lohi

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Biosciences, and Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

Ellen C. Schofield

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kennel Club Genetics Centre, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Cathryn S. Mellersh

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kennel Club Genetics Centre, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Luisa De Risio

Contributed equally to this work with: Luisa De Risio, Sally L. Ricketts

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neurology/Neurosurgery Service, Centre for Small Animal Studies, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Sally L. Ricketts

Contributed equally to this work with: Luisa De Risio, Sally L. Ricketts

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

Affiliation Kennel Club Genetics Centre, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

HL provides consultancy to Genoscoper Laboratories, which offers dog genetic tests. The Animal Health Trust offers a commercial DNA testing service, relevant to authors CSM, CJ, SLR and ECS. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.