Primers were designed to amplify the region around the two variants of interest on chr13, chr13:43897196 (F- GCTCCCAAGAAGGGACAGAC; R- TTGGAATAAGATGACAGAGCAAG) and chr13:44170972 (F- AAACGATCCAGAGAGCAGATTAC; R- GAGCCCAGGCCAAGAGTG) using Primer3106 (link). PCR was carried out on a SimplyAmp thermocycler or GeneAmp PCR system 9700 (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) using AmpliTaq Gold (Thermo Fisher, Waltham, MA) using standard reaction protocols with a touch-down thermocycler program starting at 65 oC annealing temperature and decreasing 0.5 oC each cycle for 20 cycles then an additional 20 cycles at 55 oC annealing temperature. Denaturing and extending temperatures were constant as per standard protocols.
Amplified DNA was sequenced using BigDye Terminator 3.1 (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) and run on a 3730xl sequence analyzer (Applied Biosystems). The variants were genotyped using Sequencher 5.4.6 (GeneCodes Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI). Odds ratios were calculated using genotypes from 47 affected and 47 unaffected Shelties.
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