A Simple Repeat Polymorphism in the MITF-M Promoter Is a Key Regulator of White Spotting in Dogs

• 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

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• 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

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• Jennifer R. S. Meadows,

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

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• Gerli Rosengren Pielberg,

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

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• Ulla Gustafson,

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

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• Åke Hedhammar,

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Arne Söderberg,

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

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• Carles Vilà,

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

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• Xiaolan Zhang,

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

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• Mikael Åkesson,

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

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• 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

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• Göran Andersson,

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

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• Leif Andersson

  * E-mail: 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

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