About the Authors

Jeanette Bannoehr

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Dermatology department, Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Affiliations Division of Clinical Dermatology, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Pierre Balmer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Division of Clinical Dermatology, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Michael H. Stoffel

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Vidhya Jagannathan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Véronique Gaschen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Kathrin Kühni

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Beyza Sayar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, Molecular Dermatology and Stem Cell Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Michaela Drögemüller

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Denise Howald

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Dominique J. Wiener

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America.

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tosso Leeb

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Monika M. Welle

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Eliane J. Müller

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, Molecular Dermatology and Stem Cell Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Clinic for Dermatology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Petra J. Roosje

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

petra.roosje@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Division of Clinical Dermatology, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.