About the Authors

Yunpeng Wang

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Genetics, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Arne B. Gjuvsland

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Genetics, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Jon Olav Vik

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Genetics, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Nicolas P. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter J. Hunter

Affiliation Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Stig W. Omholt

stig.omholt@umb.no

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Genetics, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW ABG SWO. Analyzed the data: YW ABG. Wrote the paper: YW ABG JOV NPS PJH SWO. Established computational pipeline: YW ABG JOV. Contributed to computational pipeline: NPS PJH.