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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

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

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