About the Authors
- Barbara Gandolfi
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* E-mail: 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
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Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Verena K. Affolter
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Jeffrey Brockman
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Affiliation Hill’s Pet Nutrition Center, Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
- Jens Haggstrom
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Shannon E. K. Joslin
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Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Amanda L. Koehne
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- James C. Mullikin
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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
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Wesley C. Warren
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Affiliation The Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Leslie A. Lyons
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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.