About the Authors

Takeshi Kawakami

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

adam@embarkvet.com (ARB); tkawakami@embarkvet.com (TK)

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Meghan K. Jensen

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

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Slavney

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Petra E. Deane

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

Current address: Mascoma LLC Lallemand Corporation, Libanon, NH, United States of America

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ausra Milano

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vandana Raghavan

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brett Ford

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erin T. Chu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Amazon Web Services, Inc, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron J. Sams

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam R. Boyko

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

adam@embarkvet.com (ARB); tkawakami@embarkvet.com (TK)

Affiliations Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: TK, MKJ, AS, AM, VR, BF, AJS and ARB are employees of Embark Veterinary, a canine DNA testing company which will offer commercial testing for the variant described in this study. ARB is co-founder and part owner of Embark. PED and ETC were employees of Embark Veterinary when this study was conducted but were employees of Mascoma LLC Lallemand Corporation and Amazon Web Services, respectively by the time of manuscript submission. Mascoma LLC Lallemand Corporation and Amazon Web Services do not have any competing interests with this study and do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.