About the Authors

Marta Owczarek-Lipska

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Vidhya Jagannathan

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Cord Drögemüller

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Sabina Lutz

Affiliation Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Barbara Glanemann

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Science, The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, North Mymms, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Tosso Leeb

Contributed equally to this work with: Tosso Leeb, Peter H. Kook

tosso.leeb@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Peter H. Kook

Contributed equally to this work with: Tosso Leeb, Peter H. Kook

Affiliation Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL PHK. Performed the experiments: MO-L VJ CD. Analyzed the data: MO-L VJ TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL BG PHK. Wrote the paper: MO-L TL PHK.