About the Authors
- Saber Qanbari
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* E-mail: sqanbar@gwdg.de
Affiliation Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany
- Hubert Pausch
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Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
- Sandra Jansen
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Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
- Mehmet Somel
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Current address: Middle East Technical University, Department of Biological Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.
Affiliation Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Tim M. Strom
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Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
- Ruedi Fries
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Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
- Rasmus Nielsen
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Affiliation Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Henner Simianer
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Affiliation Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SQ HS RN. Performed the experiments: TMS SJ RF. Analyzed the data: SQ HP SJ MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF TMS SJ. Wrote the paper: SQ RN HS.