About the Authors

Yali Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yali Hou, Yachun Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yachun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yali Hou, Yachun Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

George Lust

Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Lan Zhu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Zhiwu Zhang

zz19@cornell.edu

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Rory J. Todhunter

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL LZ ZZ RJT. Performed the experiments: YH YW. Analyzed the data: YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW ZZ. Wrote the paper: GL LZ ZZ RJT.