An analysis of behavioral characteristics and enrollment year variability in 47,444 dogs entering the Dog Aging Project from 2020 to 2023

• Yuhuan Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuhuan Li, Courtney L. Sexton

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Courtney L. Sexton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuhuan Li, Courtney L. Sexton

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sextonc@vt.edu

  Affiliation Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0174-7459

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• DAP Consortium ,

  ¶Membership of the DAP Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgements.

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• Annette Fitzpatrick,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Audrey Ruple

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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