About the Authors

Tiphanie Goetstouwers

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium

Mario Van Poucke

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium

Wouter Coppieters

Affiliation Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège (B34), Liège (Sart Tilman), Belgium

Van Ut Nguyen

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Vesna Melkebeek

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Annelies Coddens

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Katleen Van Steendam

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Dieter Deforce

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Eric Cox

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Luc J. Peelman

Luc.Peelman@UGent.be

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG MVP VUN EC DD LJP. Performed the experiments: TG VUN WC. Analyzed the data: TG MVP WC VUN KVS AC VM EC DD LJP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC DD EC LJP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TG MVP WC VUN VM AC EC LJP KVS DD.