About the Authors

Martina Gerber

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland

Andrea Fischer

Affiliation Section of Neurology, Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80539 Munich, Germany

Vidhya Jagannathan

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland

Michaela Drögemüller

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland

Cord Drögemüller

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland

Martin J. Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Science, Small Animal Clinic, Justus-Liebig-University, 35392 Giessen, Germany

Filipa Bernardino

Affiliation Section of Neurology, Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80539 Munich, Germany

Eberhard Manz

Affiliation Generatio Sol. GmbH, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Kaspar Matiasek

Affiliation Section of Clinical and Comparative Neuropathology, Institute of Veterinary Pathology at the Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80539 Munich, Germany

Kai Rentmeister

Affiliation Tierärztliche Praxis für Neurologie, 97337 Dettelbach, Germany

Tosso Leeb

tosso.leeb@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: E. Manz is the CEO of the company Generatio Sol., which is offering genetic testing for DWLM. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG VJ TL. Performed the experiments: MG VJ MD CD EM TL. Analyzed the data: MG VJ MD CD EM TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF MJS FB KM KR. Wrote the paper: MG AF VJ FB TL.