About the Authors

Jingjing Gu

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Nick Orr

Affiliations Animal Genomics Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Chester Beatty Laboratories, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom

Stephen D. Park

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Lisa M. Katz

Affiliation University Veterinary Hospital, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Galina Sulimova

Affiliation Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

David E. MacHugh

Affiliations Animal Genomics Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Emmeline W. Hill

Emmeline.Hill@ucd.ie

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM EWH. Performed the experiments: JG EWH. Analyzed the data: JG NO SDEP EWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS. Wrote the paper: JG NO SDEP LMK DM EWH. Provided veterinary assistance: LMK. Principal Investigator: EWH.