Identification of Novel Genetic Risk Loci in Maltese Dogs with Necrotizing Meningoencephalitis and Evidence of a Shared Genetic Risk across Toy Dog Breeds

• Isabelle Schrauwen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isabelle Schrauwen, Renee M. Barber

  Affiliations Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Renee M. Barber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isabelle Schrauwen, Renee M. Barber

  Affiliation Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Scott J. Schatzberg,

  Affiliation The Animal Neurology and Imaging Center, Algodones, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Ashley L. Siniard,

  Affiliation Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

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• Jason J. Corneveaux,

  Affiliation Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

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• Brian F. Porter,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Karen M. Vernau,

  Affiliation Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Rebekah I. Keesler,

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Kaspar Matiasek,

  Affiliation Section of Clinical & Comparative Neuropathology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Thomas Flegel,

  Affiliation Department of Small Animal Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Andrew D. Miller,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Teresa Southard,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Christopher L. Mariani,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Gayle C. Johnson,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Matthew J. Huentelman

  * E-mail: mhuentelman@tgen.org

  Affiliation Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

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