About the Authors
- Daniela Piras
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Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela Piras, Maria Grazia Doro
Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy
- Maria Grazia Doro
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Contributed equally to this work with: Daniela Piras, Maria Grazia Doro
Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy
- Giuseppina Casu
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Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy
- Paola Maria Melis
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Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy
- Simona Vaccargiu
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Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy
- Ignazio Piras
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Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Cagliari, Italy
- Debora Parracciani
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Affiliation Genetic Park of Ogliastra, Perdasdefogu, Italy
- Roberta Stradoni
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Affiliation Genetic Park of Ogliastra, Perdasdefogu, Italy
- Bruno Frongia
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Affiliation Genetic Park of Ogliastra, Perdasdefogu, Italy
- Graziano Lai
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Affiliation Genetic Park of Ogliastra, Perdasdefogu, Italy
- Salvatore Sale
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Walter Cattari
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Roberto Piras
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Ombretta Querci
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Piergiorgio Demuro
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Sandro Cui
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Franco Atzori
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Marco Mancosu
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Francesca Marchiori
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Rossana Cammelli
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Alessandra Spiga
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Pier Paolo Loddo
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Gianfranco Pili
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Roberto Boi
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Giuseppe Argiolas
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Affiliation ARAS, Regional Association of Sardinian Farmers, Cagliari, Italy
- Paolo Mereu
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Affiliation Department of Physiological, Biochemical and Cell Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Giovanni Giuseppe Leoni
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Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Salvatore Naitana
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Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Mario Pirastu
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Affiliations Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy, Genetic Park of Ogliastra, Perdasdefogu, Italy
- Andrea Novelletto
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* E-mail: novelletto@bio.uniroma2.it
Affiliation Department of Biology, University “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
IP was affiliated with the commercial company Shardna Life Sciences (see details at http://www.shardna.com/page.php?l=1&id_page=32) as a temporary collaborator and declares that this does not alter his adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. D. Parracciani, RS, BF and GL were employees of Genetic Park of Ogliastra, a non-profit Consortium (see http://www.parcogenos.it/ for a description of statutory mission) and declare that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. MP was the Scientific coordinator of Genetic Park of Ogliastra, and declares that this does not alter his adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: D. Piras MGD MP. Performed the experiments: D. Piras MGD GC SV. Analyzed the data: AN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IP D. Parracciani RS BF SS WC RP OQ PD SC FA MM FM RC AS PPL GP RB GA PM GGL SN. Wrote the paper: AN. Phenotype data collection and database design: GL PMM.