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A structural variant in the 5’-flanking region of the TWIST2 gene affects melanocyte development in belted cattle

  • Nivedita Awasthi Mishra,

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

    Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5529-7858

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  • Cord Drögemüller,

    Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Vidhya Jagannathan,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation

    Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Irene Keller,

    Roles Investigation

    Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Daniel Wüthrich,

    Roles Investigation

    Affiliations Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Bern, Switzerland, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Rémy Bruggmann,

    Roles Supervision

    Affiliations Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Bern, Switzerland, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Julia Beck,

    Roles Investigation

    Affiliation Chronix Biomedical, Göttingen, Germany

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4143-1363

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  • Ekkehard Schütz,

    Roles Resources

    Affiliations Chronix Biomedical, Göttingen, Germany, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  • Bertram Brenig,

    Roles Resources

    Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7635-9656

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  • Steffi Demmel,

    Roles Investigation

    Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Simon Moser,

    Roles Resources

    Affiliation Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland

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  • Heidi Signer-Hasler,

    Roles Resources

    Affiliation Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland

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  • Aldona Pieńkowska-Schelling,

    Roles Investigation

    Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Clinic for Reproductive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  • Claude Schelling,

    Roles Investigation

    Affiliation Clinic for Reproductive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  • Marcos Sande,

    Roles Investigation

    Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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  • Ronald Rongen,

    Roles Resources

    Affiliation Dutch Belted Cattle Association, EM Eefde, The Netherlands

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  • Stefan Rieder,

    Roles Resources

    Affiliation Agroscope, Swiss National Stud Farm, Avenches, Switzerland

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4658-2187

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  • Robert N. Kelsh,

    Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9381-0066

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  • Nadia Mercader,

    Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0905-6399

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  •  [ ... ],
  • Tosso Leeb

    Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: tosso.leeb@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

    Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Competence Center of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Bern, Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL & Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0553-4880

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A structural variant in the 5’-flanking region of the TWIST2 gene affects melanocyte development in belted cattle

  • Nivedita Awasthi Mishra, 
  • Cord Drögemüller, 
  • Vidhya Jagannathan, 
  • Irene Keller, 
  • Daniel Wüthrich, 
  • Rémy Bruggmann, 
  • Julia Beck, 
  • Ekkehard Schütz, 
  • Bertram Brenig, 
  • Steffi Demmel
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  • Published: June 28, 2017
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180170
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