About the Authors

Saber Qanbari

sqanbar@gwdg.de

Affiliation Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany

Hubert Pausch

Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany

Sandra Jansen

Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany

Mehmet Somel

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

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Ruedi Fries

Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany

Rasmus Nielsen

Affiliation Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Henner Simianer

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.