About the Authors

Sébastien Fritz

Affiliations UNCEIA, Genetics Team, Paris, France, INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Aurelien Capitan

Affiliations UNCEIA, Genetics Team, Paris, France, INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Anis Djari

Affiliation INRA, Sigenae, UR875 Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Sabrina C. Rodriguez

Affiliations INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France, INRA, Sigenae, UR875 Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Anne Barbat

Affiliation INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Aurélia Baur

Affiliations UNCEIA, Genetics Team, Paris, France, INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Cécile Grohs

Affiliation INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Bernard Weiss

Affiliation INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Mekki Boussaha

Affiliation INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Diane Esquerré

Affiliation INRA, GeT Genomics Facility, UMR444 Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Christophe Klopp

Affiliation INRA, Sigenae, UR875 Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Dominique Rocha

Affiliation INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Didier Boichard

didier.boichard@jouy.inra.fr

Affiliation INRA, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Competing Interests

Genotypes originated from three projects funded by ANR and ApisGene, and from genomic selection activity generated by seven French cattle breeding companies (Creavia, Amelis, Genes Diffusion, Midatest, Umotest, Jura Betail, Interselection Normande). The whole genome sequence data originated from the CartoSeq project funded by ANR and ApisGene. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: SF AC DB. Performed the experiments: CG DE. Analyzed the data: SF AC AD SR A. Barbat A. Baur BW MB CK DR DB. Wrote the paper: AC DB SF.