A high-density genome-wide association with absolute blood monocyte count in domestic sheep identifies novel loci

• Ryan D. Oliveira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Michelle R. Mousel,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations USDA-ARS Animal Disease Research, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Michael V. Gonzalez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Codie J. Durfee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Animal Disease Research, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4340-0149

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• Kimberly M. Davenport,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal, Veterinary, and Food Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America

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• Brenda M. Murdoch,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal, Veterinary, and Food Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America, Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

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• J. Bret Taylor,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS Range Sheep Production Efficiency Research, Dubois, Idaho, United States of America

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• Holly L. Neibergs,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

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• Stephen N. White

  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: Stephen.White@wsu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, USDA-ARS Animal Disease Research, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9255-6054

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