Contributors
Eldin A. Leighton:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3032-0315
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Dolores Holle: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Darryl N. Biery: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Thomas P. Gregor: Role: Data curationRole: Visualization
Mischa B. McDonald-Lynch: Role: Writing – review & editing
Mandy L. Wallace: Role: Writing – review & editing
Jennifer K. Reagan: Role: Writing – review & editing
Gail K. Smith: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Claire Wade: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
22
February
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Electronic Location Identifier: e0212544
Affiliations
[1
]
The Seeing Eye, Inc, Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America
[2
]
Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
University of Sydney Faculty of Veterinary Science, AUSTRALIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: Most of the data collection for this publication occurred while PennHIP was a not-for-profit
service wholly owned and operated by the University of Pennsylvania. In December,
2013 PennHIP was acquired by Antech Imaging Services of Fountain Valley, CA, United
States of America. Antech Imaging Services is a segment of VCAAntech, which was purchased
in 2018 by Mars, Inc. Since 2013 PennHIP has been a for-profit diagnostic service
available world-wide. Dr. Gail K. Smith is currently an employee of Antech Imaging
Services, where he is the Director of AIS PennHIP. The Seeing Eye, Inc. is a not-for-profit
charity with a focused mission to provide healthy, well-trained dogs to serve as guides
for blind people. In pursuit of this mission, The Seeing Eye has, occasionally, funded
targeted research in areas of canine health. One such project was to develop an improved,
alternative method for assessing hip quality in young dogs. Funding for much of this
targeted research support was channeled through Morris Animal Foundation, who provides
oversight and an established peer-review process for awarding research grants. Some
of the funds dispensed by Morris Animal Foundation for developing the distraction
index method originated with The Seeing Eye, Inc. During some of the years when this
funding support was provided by The Seeing Eye, Drs. Eldin A. Leighton and Dolores
Holle were employed by The Seeing Eye and participated in the decision-making process
that led to this funding support. After the PennHIP program was established as a service
provided by the University of Pennsylvania and later by AIS, The Seeing Eye was a
consumer of the service, obtaining PennHIP scores on thousands of dogs under contract
with the University of Pennsylvania and later with AIS. The Seeing Eye holds no patents
or income producing interest in PennHIP. Our disclosure of these relationships is
intended to provide transparency to our readers. Furthermore, these relationships
do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
[¤a]
Current address: Canine Genetic Services, LLC, Great Falls, Virginia, United States
of America
[¤b]
Current address: West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
[¤c]
Current address: Veterinary Specialty Hospital of the Carolinas, Cary, North Carolina,
United States of America
[¤d]
Current address: Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
[¤e]
Current address: Seattle Veterinary Specialists, Seattle, Washington, United States
of America
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-31523
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212544
PMC ID: 6386262
PubMed ID: 30794614
SO-VID: 58e6f0ce-81d7-4ce7-b6d8-1ba489b63831
Copyright © © 2019 Leighton et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 31
August
2017
Date
accepted
: 5
February
2019
Page count
Figures: 12,
Tables: 5,
Pages: 33
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100001250, Morris Animal Foundation;
Award Recipient
:
Gail K. Smith
Drs. Gail K. Smith and Daryl N. Biery acknowledge generous financial support from
The Seeing Eye, Inc., Morristown, NJ, for funds obtained from and administered by
Morris Animal Foundation under grant 93CA-5. All authors acknowledge generous financial
support received from the governor and commonwealth of the state of Pennsylvania.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Musculoskeletal System
Subject:
Pelvis
Subject:
Hip
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Musculoskeletal System
Subject:
Pelvis
Subject:
Hip
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Vertebrates
Subject:
Amniotes
Subject:
Mammals
Subject:
Dogs
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Animal Types
Subject:
Pets and Companion Animals
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Zoology
Subject:
Animal Types
Subject:
Pets and Companion Animals
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Clinical Genetics
Subject:
Genetic Diseases
Subject:
Autosomal Recessive Diseases
Subject:
Glycogen Storage Diseases
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Metabolic Disorders
Subject:
Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Subject:
Glycogen Storage Diseases
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Genetics
Subject:
Phenotypes
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Genetics
Subject:
Heredity
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Rheumatology
Subject:
Arthritis
Subject:
Osteoarthritis
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Musculoskeletal System
Subject:
Skeletal Joints
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Musculoskeletal System
Subject:
Skeletal Joints
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