A Coding Variant in the Gene Bardet - Biedl Syndrome 4 ( BBS 4 ) is Associated with 1 a Novel Form of Canine Progressive Retinal Atrophy

A Coding Variant in the Gene Bardet-Biedl Syndrome 4 (BBS4) is Associated with 1 a Novel Form of Canine Progressive Retinal Atrophy 2 Tracy Chew, *, 1 Bianca Haase, † Roslyn Bathgate, † Cali E. Willet, ‡ Maria K. Kaukonen, 3 §, **, †† Lisa J. Mascord, * Hannes T. Lohi, §, **, †† Claire M. Wade *, 1 4 5 Author Affiliations 6 School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, 7 Sydney NSW Australia, Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Science, 8 University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, Sydney Informatics Hub, Core Research 9 Facilities, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, Department of Veterinary 10 Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, Research Programs Unit, Molecular 11 Neurology, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, 12 Finland 13 14 Reference numbers 15 Genotyping array data is available at NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus (accession 16 number GSE87642). Whole genome sequencing data is available at NCBI’s Sequence 17 Read Archive (BioProject accession number PRJNA344694). 18 19 20 G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics Early Online, published on May 22, 2017 as doi:10.1534/g3.117.043109