About the Authors

Vicki N. Meyers-Wallen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vnm1@cornell.edu

Affiliations Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Adam R. Boyko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Charles G. Danko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Jennifer K. Grenier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Jason G. Mezey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States of America

Jessica J. Hayward

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Laura M. Shannon

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Chuan Gao

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Current address: PAREXEL International, Durham, NC, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Afrah Shafquat

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Edward J. Rice

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Shashikant Pujar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Stefanie Eggers

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Thomas Ohnesorg

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Andrew H. Sinclair

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following interests: Member of the Board of Trustees (M-W), The Seeing Eye, Inc., a philanthropic organization helping blind people through the use of guide dogs; cofounder and officer of Embark Veterinary, Inc. (AB), a canine genetics testing company, and current employment at PAREXEL International (CG). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.