Lack of significant associations with early career performance suggest no link between the DMRT3 “Gait Keeper” mutation and precocity in Coldblooded trotters

• Kim Jäderkvist Fegraeus ,

  * E-mail: kim.jaderkvist@slu.se

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6428-3420

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• Chameli Lawrence,

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

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• Katrine Petäjistö,

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

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• Maria K. Johansson,

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

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• Maja Wiklund,

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

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• Christina Olsson,

  Affiliation The Swedish Trotting Association, Bromma, Sweden

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• Leif Andersson,

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

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• Lisa S Andersson,

  Affiliation Capilet Genetics AB, Västerås, Sweden

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• Knut H. Røed,

  Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

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• Carl-Fredrik Ihler,

  Affiliation Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

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• Eric Strand,

  Affiliation Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

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• Gabriella Lindgren ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Lindgren, Brandon D. Velie

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

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• Brandon D. Velie

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Lindgren, Brandon D. Velie

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

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