Estimating relative CWD susceptibility and disease progression in farmed white-tailed deer with rare PRNP alleles

• Nicholas J. Haley ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: NHaley@midwestern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Graduate Studies, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0502-7862

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• Kahla Merrett,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Graduate Studies, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona

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• Amy Buros Stein,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona

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• Dennis Simpson,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Simpson Whitetails Genetic Testing, Belleville, Michigan

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• Andrew Carlson,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Simpson Whitetails Genetic Testing, Belleville, Michigan

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• Gordon Mitchell,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory-Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Antanas Staskevicius,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory-Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Tracy Nichols,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS, Veterinary Services, Cervid Health Program, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Aaron D. Lehmkuhl,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS, Veterinary Services, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Bruce V. Thomsen

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS, Veterinary Services, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS, Veterinary Services, Center for Veterinary Biologics, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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