Some dogs have
certain inheritable characteristics that can develop into a disability or disease.
Some companies have changed their offerings and instead provide information on ancestry and whether you're a genetic carrier for
certain inheritable diseases (and could pass those genes to your children).
Not exact matches
Cataracts are not always restricted to the elderly and can sometimes show up even at an early age in
certain breeding lines where they are
inheritable.
MMVD is considered highly
inheritable with a polygenic threshold, which means that multiple genes influence the trait and a
certain threshold has to be reached before MMVD and MR develops [9, 10].
Your family health history is one of the factors that plays into your classification; if a family died from an
inheritable disease before a
certain age — typically 60 or 65 — it can negatively impact your classification.