Sentences with phrase «genes individual dogs»

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In the first study, the researchers have used technologies at the SNP&SEQ Technology Platform at SciLifeLab to compare genes from healthy dog individuals with genes from individuals with breast cancer.

The future availability of pets, the perpetuation of the dog fancy, the health of the individual dogs and the gene pools of the breeds that we love may all depend on keeping a few more dogs intact!

Even though pet dogs of these breeds rarely fulfill their original purposes these days, individuals still carry their ancestors» DNA in their genes, which means that members of a particular breed might be predisposed to certain types of aggression.

Genotyping - the process of screening individual dogs to identify the specific gene and the specific error (mutation) in a gene that causes a disease.

In summary, dog DNA testing is not based on individual genes, but on «snips» which can carry similarities to other breeds that look nothing like one another.

I think the flaw in the genes vs how you raise them discussion is neither of them can tell you about the individual dog in front of you.

The dog's genome of 19,000 genes has been mapped, but how each of these individual genes is expressed is still an open question.

Most breeders, should they breed for any length of time, may expect to encounter it at some point, as it has been known to affect individual stud dogs that have been used extensively and which form corner stones of the current Bull Terrier gene pool.

A clinically normal dog from a litter that had one or no individuals affected with hip dysplasia (which is a polygenic disorder) is expected to carry a lower amount of liability genes than a dog with a greater number of affected littermates.

In identifying a dog's liability for carrying defective genes for a polygenic disorder, the breadth of the pedigree (that is, consideration of all siblings of individuals in the pedigree) is more important than the depth of the pedigree (consideration only of parent - offspring relationships.)

If, at some point in a breed's history, a particular sire or line of dogs becomes predominant, inherited problems may start to arise seemingly out of nowhere simply because attempts to concentrate the desirable genes of select individuals can inadvertently bring together whatever undesirable genes are present.

It tended toward greater heterozygosity — a mix of gene versions — within individual dogs, maintained genetic diversity in the breed, and therefore lessened the likelihood that bad genes for things like eye disease would match up.

A risk factor gene increases the probability that the individual will develop disease, but not every dog that has the disease - causing mutation will become ill.

This area becomes a bit more gray, because while there is a very good argument for not breeding close relatives of affected and carrier dogs, we also can not afford to eliminate all dogs in the gene pool who meet this criterion — to do so would risk further constriction of the gene pool to the point where the remaining «epilepsy - free» individuals might have higher - than - normal frequency for genes that contribute to some other genetic disorder.

How many of these genes a dog inherits determines the severity of the disease in an individual dog.

Dogs testing in the abnormal range were generally considered affected with vWD and at risk for transmitting an abnormal vWF gene to their offspring, and in some individuals for expressing an abnormal bleeding tendency.

Since hip dysplasia is a polygenic disorder controlled by several gene pairs, the disease affects individual dogs due to different genetic combinations.

A dog with two variant copies of the MLPH gene will have a blue, charcoal, Isabella (lilac) or fawn coat color depending on the other coat color genes present in the individual.

Recessive genetic disorders (such as deafness) are only expressed as full diseases when an individual dog carries two defective copies of the gene.

In all dog breeds, or all people, there will probably be 10's to 100's of individual genes involved in primary epilepsy.

Previous studies indicate that some inherited disorders do not have significantly different prevalence across both the purebred and mixed - breed dog populations [6] which may represent ancient disease liability genes that preceded breed formation that are now distributed throughout the canine population as a whole or reflect recent purebred contributions to mixed - breed individuals.

But that's not the case for purebred dog breeds, where genetically similar individuals are intentionally mated, increasing the concentration of disease genes.