About the Authors
- Birgit Deboutte
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Louis Vandekerckhove
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Morphology, Imaging, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation and Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Emmelie Stock
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Morphology, Imaging, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation and Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Kaatje Kromhout
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Morphology, Imaging, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation and Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Anthony Morin
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Breeding and Canine Development, CESECAH, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Jimmy H. Saunders
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Morphology, Imaging, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation and Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Luc Peelman
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Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
- Bart J. G. Broeckx
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Bart.Broeckx@UGent.be
Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
Competing Interests
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: the PhD grant of the first author (B.D) is funded by the chair “Assistance Dogs Purpose Dogs” at Ghent University. This chair is generously funded by the non-profit organization “Purpose Dogs”. The dataset of the Belgian assistance dogs breeding program was from the same organization. They did not influence the analysis, results or report writing in any way. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.