About the Authors

Marta Owczarek-Lipska

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

Béatrice Lauber

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Vivianne Molitor

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

Sabrina Meury

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Dermatology Unit, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Marcin Kierczak

Affiliation Computational Genetics Group, Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Katarina Tengvall

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Matthew T. Webster

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Vidhya Jagannathan

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

Yvette Schlotter

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ton Willemse

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Anke Hendricks

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Kerstin Bergvall

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Åke Hedhammar

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Göran Andersson

Affiliation Computational Genetics Group, Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Claude Favrot

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Dermatology Unit, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Petra Roosje

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

Eliane Marti

Affiliations DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tosso Leeb

tosso.leeb@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, 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.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PR EM TL. Performed the experiments: MO-L BL VM SM. Analyzed the data: MO-L BL MK KT MW VJ Å. Hedhammar GA KL-T TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS TW A. Hendricks KB CF. Wrote the paper: MO-L TL.