About the Authors

Izabella Baranowska Körberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Izabella Baranowska Körberg, Elisabeth Sundström

Current address: Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Elisabeth Sundström

Contributed equally to this work with: Izabella Baranowska Körberg, Elisabeth Sundström

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

Jennifer R. S. Meadows

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

Gerli Rosengren Pielberg

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

Ulla Gustafson

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Åke Hedhammar

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

Elinor K. Karlsson

Affiliations Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer Seddon

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory Uppsala, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia

Arne Söderberg

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Wildlife Disease, National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Uppsala, Sweden

Carles Vilà

Affiliation Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

Xiaolan Zhang

Affiliation Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mikael Åkesson

Affiliation Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory Uppsala, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Göran Andersson

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Leif Andersson

leif.andersson@imbim.uu.se

Affiliations Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IBK ES KLT GA LA. Performed the experiments: IBK ES UG XZ. Analyzed the data: IBK ES JM GRP JS GA LA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH EKK JS AS CV MA. Wrote the paper: LA IBK ES JM GA.