About the Authors

Hasan Alhaddad

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Razib Khan

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Robert A. Grahn

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Barbara Gandolfi

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

James C. Mullikin

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shelley A. Cole

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Timothy J. Gruffydd-Jones

Affiliation The Feline Centre, School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Langford, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jens Häggström

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

Hannes Lohi

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Research Programs Unit, Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, and The Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

Maria Longeri

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie e Sanità Pubblica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

Leslie A. Lyons

lalyons@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA LAL JCM. Performed the experiments: HA RAG BG SAC. Analyzed the data: HA RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCM SAC TJG JH HL ML LAL. Wrote the paper: HA RK LAL.