About the Authors

Xia Shen

Affiliations Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Computational Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm, Sweden, University of Edinburgh, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jennifer De Jonge

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, Sweden

Simon K. G. Forsberg

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Computational Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden

Mats E. Pettersson

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Computational Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden

Zheya Sheng

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Computational Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden

Lars Hennig

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala, Sweden

Örjan Carlborg

orjan.carlborg@slu.se

Affiliation Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Computational Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ÖC XS LH JDJ. Performed the experiments: JDJ. Analyzed the data: XS ÖC SKGF MEP ZS JDJ LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XS. Wrote the paper: XS ÖC. Led and coordinated the study: ÖC. Conceived and designed the computational genetic re-analysis based on publicly available data: XS ÖC. Contributed to all computational and statistical analyses of data: XS ÖC. Developed the method for the genome-scan: XS. Performed the statistical analyses: XS. Contributed to the analyses of the expression and methylation data: SKGF. Contributed to the replication GWAS analysis: MEP. Contributed to the functional analyses of genetic polymorphisms: ZS. Planned and conducted the heat-stress experiments: LH JDJ. Commented on the manuscript: SKGF MEP LH JDJ ZS.