sentence: We would like to thank Wendy Brand-Williams for her careful reading of the manuscript.The members of the International Sheep Genomics Consortium who contributed samples and expertise towards the design and execution of ovine SNP50k genotyping and next generation sequencing , and / or coauthors of [ 4 ] include : Juan Jose Arranz , Universidad de Leon ; Georgios Banos , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ; William Barendse , CSIRO Livestock Industries ; Ahmedn El Beltagy , Animal Production Research Institute ; Jorn Benenwitz , University of Hohenheim ; Steven Bishop , The Roslin Institute ; Simon Boitard , INRA ; Lutz Bunger , Scottish Agricultural College ; Jorge Calvo , CITA ; Antonello Carta , Agris Sardegna ; Ibrahim Cemal , Adnan Menderes University ; Elena Ciani , University of Bari ; Noelle Cockett , University of Utah ; Dave Coltman , University of Alberta ; Brian Dalrymple , CSIRO Livestock Industries ; Mariasilvia DAndrea , Universit degli Studi del Molise ; Ottmar Distl , University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover ; Cord Drogemuller , Institute of Genetics , University of Berne ; Georg Erhardt , Institut fr Tierzucht und Haustiergenetik Justus-Liebig-Universitt Gieen ; Emma Eythorsdottir , Agricultural University of Iceland ; Kimberly Gietzen , Illumina Inc .; Clare Gill , Texas A & M University ; Elisha Gootwine , The Volcani Center ; Vidya Gupta , National Chemical Laboratory ; Olivier Hanotte , University of Nottingham ; Ben Hayes , Department of Primary Industries Victoria ; Michael Heaton , USDA MARC ; Stefan Hiendleder , University of Adelaide ; Han Jialin , ILRI and CAAS ; Juha Kantanen , MTT Agrifood Research ; Matthew Kent , CiGene ; James Kijas , CSIRO Livestock Industries ; Denis Larkin , University of Aberystwyth ; Johannes A. Lenstra , Utrecht University ; Kui Li , Lhasa People Hospital , Tibet ; Terry Longhurst , Meat and Livestock Australia ; Runlin Ma , Chinese Academy of Science ; Russell McCulloch , CSIRO Livestock Industries ; David MacHugh , University College Dublin ; Sean McWilliam , CSIRO Livestock Industries ; John McEwan , AgResearch ; Jillian Maddox , University of Melbourne ; Massoud Malek , IAEA ; Faruque Mdomar , Bangladesh Agriculture University ; Despoina Miltiadou , Cyprus University of Technology ; Luis V. Monteagudo Ibez , Universidad de Zaragoza ; Carole Moreno , INRA ; Frank Nicholas , University of Sydney ; Kristen Nowak , University of Western Australia ; V. Hutton Oddy , University of New England ; Samuel Paiva , Embrapa ; Varsha Pardeshi , National Chemical Laboratory ; Josephine Pemberton , University of Edinburgh ; Fabio Pilla , Universit degli Studi del Molise ; Laercio R. Porto Neto , CSIRO Livestock Industries ; Herman Raadsma , University of Sydney ; Cyril Roberts , Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute ; Magali San Cristobal , INRA ; Tiziana Sechi , Agris Sardegna ; Paul Scheet , University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center ; Bertrand Servin , INRA ; Mohammad Shariflou , University of Sydney ; Pradeepa Silva , University of Peradeniya ; Henner Simianer , University of Goettingen ; Jon Slate , University of Sheffield ; Mikka Tapio , MTT ; and Selina Vattathil , University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center ; Vicki Whan , CSIRO Livestock Industries .