About the Authors

Barbara Gandolfi

bgandolfi@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Hasan Alhaddad

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Verena K. Affolter

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Brockman

Affiliation Hill’s Pet Nutrition Center, Topeka, Kansas, United States of America

Jens Haggstrom

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Shannon E. K. Joslin

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Amanda L. Koehne

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

James C. Mullikin

Affiliation Comparative Genomics Unit, Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Catherine A. Outerbridge

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Wesley C. Warren

Affiliation The Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Leslie A. Lyons

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

JB works for a private company (Hill’s Pet Food, Inc) that partially sponsored the development of the 63k feline SNP array. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG HA LAL. Performed the experiments: BG HA SEKJ. Analyzed the data: BG HA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VKA JB ALK JCM CAO WCW LAL JH. Wrote the paper: BG. Edited and revised the paper: HA LAL VKA CAO.