Funding for this research was provided by:
Erik Philip-Sörensens stiftelse
Swedish board of Agriculture
European Commission
Article History
Received: 27 June 2018
Accepted: 19 February 2020
First Online: 6 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical permission to collect blood samples from sheep and use for genetic studies was approved before the study by the board on animal ethics in Uppsala (Uppsala djurförsöksetiska nämnd) located at Uppsala tingsrätt (Dnr C272/10 and C102/13). All sheep owners got information about the planned research and approved that samples were taken from their sheep and used for research.
: All authors read and approved the final manuscript and consented that the manuscript should be submitted for publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.