About the Authors
- Mirjam Frischknecht
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Helena Niehof-Oellers
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Affiliation Düsseldorf, Germany
- Vidhya Jagannathan
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Marta Owczarek-Lipska
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Cord Drögemüller
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Elisabeth Dietschi
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Gaudenz Dolf
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Bernd Tellhelm
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Science, Small Animal Clinic, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
- Johann Lang
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Division of Clinical Radiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Katriina Tiira
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Affiliations Research Programs Unit, Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, Finland
- Hannes Lohi
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Affiliations Research Programs Unit, Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, Finland
- Tosso Leeb
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* E-mail: tosso.leeb@vetsuisse.unibe.ch
Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Competing Interests
H. Lohi owns shares of the company Genoscoper, which currently offers COL11A2 genotyping as a commercial genetic test. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MF TL. Performed the experiments: MF HN-O VJ MO-L CD BT. Analyzed the data: MF VJ CD GD JL TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN-O ED BT KT HL. Wrote the paper: MF JL TL.