About the Authors
- Daniela Iamartino
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: iamartino.d@aia.it
Affiliations AIA-LGS Associazione Italiana Allevatori–Laboratorio Genetica e Servizi, Cremona, Italy, Fondazione Parco Tecnologico Padano, Lodi, Italy
- Ezequiel L. Nicolazzi
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Current address: Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding, 4201 Northview Dr. One Town Centre, Bowie, MD, United States of America
Affiliation Bioinformatics core, Parco Tecnologico Padano, Lodi, Italy
- Curtis P. Van Tassell
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software
Affiliation Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, BARC, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- James M. Reecy
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Roles Data curation, Software, Supervision
Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America
- Eric R. Fritz-Waters
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Roles Investigation, Software
Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America
- James E. Koltes
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Roles Investigation, Software
Current address: Department of Animal Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America
- Stefano Biffani
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Roles Formal analysis, Validation
Affiliation Fondazione Parco Tecnologico Padano, Lodi, Italy
- Tad S. Sonstegard
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Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision
Current address: Recombinetics Inc., St. Paul, MN, United States of America
Affiliation Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, BARC, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven G. Schroeder
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Roles Data curation, Methodology
Affiliation Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, BARC, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- Paolo Ajmone-Marsan
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Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation
Affiliation Institute of Zootechnics, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
- Riccardo Negrini
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Roles Resources
Affiliations AIA-LGS Associazione Italiana Allevatori–Laboratorio Genetica e Servizi, Cremona, Italy, Institute of Zootechnics, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
- Rolando Pasquariello
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Roles Methodology
Affiliation Fondazione Parco Tecnologico Padano, Lodi, Italy
- Paola Ramelli
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Roles Methodology
Affiliation Fondazione Parco Tecnologico Padano, Lodi, Italy
- Angelo Coletta
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Roles Data curation, Resources
Affiliation ANASB-Associazione Nazionale Allevatori Specie Bufalina, Centurano—Caserta, Italy
- José F. Garcia
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Câmpus de Araçatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Ahmad Ali
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Roles Resources
Affiliation COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan
- Luigi Ramunno
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche ed Ispezione degli Alimenti, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici (NA), Italy
- Gianfranco Cosenza
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche ed Ispezione degli Alimenti, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici (NA), Italy
- Denise A. A. de Oliveira
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Marcela G. Drummond
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Eduardo Bastianetto
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Alessandro Davassi
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Roles Methodology, Software, Validation
Affiliation Affymetrix UK Ltd, High Wycombe, United Kingdom
- Ali Pirani
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Roles Resources, Software
Affiliation Affymetrix UK Ltd, High Wycombe, United Kingdom
- Fiona Brew
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Affymetrix UK Ltd, High Wycombe, United Kingdom
- John L. Williams
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Davies Research Centre, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA, Australia
Competing Interests
One commercial organisation (Affymetrix UK Ltd) was involved in the development of the Water buffalo SNP array and preparation of the manuscript. Among the authors, FB, AP, AD work for Affymetrix Ltd. The Axiom Buffalo Genotyping array (Affymetrix PN 550431) was made available to the research community under the Affymetrix Expert Design Program. Information about the array can be accessed on affymetrix.com (http://www.affymetrix.com/estore/catalog/prod740001/AFFY/Axiom%26%23174%3B+Buffalo+Genotyping+Array#1_1). The Associazione Italiana Allevatori, Laboratorio Genetica e Servizi (AIA-LGS), Cremona, Italy—was involved in the development of this work supplying resources free of charge, and have not commercial interest in the project outputs. Author RN works for AIA-LGS. The author DI has become a member of AIA-LGS staff following the completion of experimental work for this publication. The Associazione Nazionale Allevatori Specie Bufalina (ANASB), Centurano -Caserta, Italy- provided phenotypic data free of charge for the Italian samples used in the GWAS, and has no commercial interest in the project results. Author AC works for ANASB. All other authors declare no conflict of interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.