About the Authors

Natalie Wiedemar

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

Jens Tetens

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Vidhya Jagannathan

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

Annie Menoud

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

Samuel Neuenschwander

Affiliations Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Vital-IT, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Rémy Bruggmann

Affiliation Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Georg Thaller

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Cord Drögemüller

Cord.Droegemueller@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CD. Performed the experiments: NW VJ SN CD. Analyzed the data: NW JT VJ SN RB CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NW JT VJ AM SN RB GT CD. Wrote the paper: NW CD.