Congenital idiopathic megaesophagus in the German shepherd dog is a sex-differentiated trait and is associated with an intronic variable number tandem repeat in Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Receptor 2

• Sarah M. Bell,

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

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Jacquelyn M. Evans,

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

  Affiliations Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America, Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1272-0059

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• Katy M. Evans,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations The Seeing Eye Inc., Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0824-8409

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• Kate L. Tsai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7946-0522

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• Rooksana E. Noorai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America, Clemson University Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9992-5198

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• Thomas R. Famula,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3139-9849

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• Dolores M. Holle,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation The Seeing Eye Inc., Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Leigh Anne Clark

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lclark4@clemson.edu

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6621-9660

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