Sentences with phrase «heritable diseases»

IVF could also help scientists one day rid dogs of heritable diseases, such as urinary stones in dalmatians: After creating an embryo in a dish, scientists could use gene editing to fix troublesome mutations.

Like many heritable diseases, breeding away is generally not effective, in part because of the difficulty to reliably detect / diagnose all carriers.

Advocates say the technology can speed the day that scientists are able to prevent heritable diseases.

One highly heritable disease, Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy, causes painful corneal swelling and blurred vision.

The OFA is an organization that tracks heritable diseases in many parts of the body including eyes in dogs with the goal of identifying and eliminating genetic conditions.

Loss of variation equals a greater incidence in recessive genes, which equals dogs that end up with heritable diseases more frequently.

«This important study not only adds more genetic risk factors to the list of those known for testicular germ cell tumours — the most common cancer in young men — but also adds detail to the emerging picture of testicular cancer as a strongly heritable disease.

Despite recent successes in identifying causative mutations for human heritable diseases through the use of sequencing technologies, an associated gene has not been identified for approximately half of the reported diseases.

Cornell says this new science «could also enable researchers to eradicate heritable diseases in dogs and facilitate the study of genetic diseases in dogs and humans, which share many of the same or similar illnesses.»

If you contributed your dog's DNA to the University of Missouri's TT DNA bank, please remember to update your dog's health information if your dog is diagnosed with a possible heritable disease (for example, PRA or other eye disease, deafness, orthopedic disorders, AIHA, lymphoma, etc.) since the sample was submitted.

All Border Collie owners and breeders are encouraged to submit their gonioscopy test results in order to help eliminate heritable diseases.

Many breeds are faced with multiple heritable diseases which breeders wish to select against.

An experimental assisted reproduction technique that could allow some families to avoid having children with certain types of heritable disease should be allowed to go forward in the United States, provided it proceeds slowly and cautiously.

Screens all breeding stock for heritable diseases and removes affected animals from breeding program.

But aside from deliberate, high - tech medical techniques (including those employed to prevent heritable diseases and something called sperm sorting), the odds of delivering a boy versus a girl are simply luck of the draw: Globally, male births only slightly trump female births (about 107 boys for every 100 girls), and in the United States the ratio is even closer to 50/50.

But it has a simple and clear rationale: elbow dysplasia, and osteochondrosis of the humeral condyle in particular, is a highly heritable disease.

This kind of gene editing could potentially be used in gene therapies targeting a variety of devastating, heritable diseases.

«This is the first method that accounts for the mechanisms of gene regulation, and can be applied to any heritable disease or phenotype.»

«By using this technique, it's possible to reduce the burden of this heritable disease on the family and eventually the human population,» he said in a journal news release.

CHD is a heritable disease.

You should also wait for your dog to fully mature so that you can perform any necessary health checks on them to make sure that they won't pass on any heritable diseases or conditions.

Have the sire and dam been certified free of heritable diseases?

In dogs, it is a genetically programmed and heritable disease.

Check with your breeder about the genetic tests used to screen for heritable diseases.

Do remember that after January 1997 the breed will be registered by the Kennel Club with Glaucoma and Dysplacia as «Heritable diseases», this will make breeders legally liable.

By not having a dual registry with a special category of pure - breed dogs who have been progeny - tested and screened for genetic abnormalities and heritable diseases, the «papers» are of little value, although many believe them to be like some Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Persian breeders dedicate themselves to breeding healthy cats, availing themselves of the latest in veterinary screening procedures to test for any heritable disease conditions.

This will significantly reduce the number of purebreds available in California and limit the gene pool, increasing the incidence of heritable diseases and disorders.

«These examinations screen dogs for any evidence of heritable disease.

It is unlikely that each breeding pair will have been through the expensive screening for heritable diseases, to which virtually all breeds of dogs are subject.

Since this seems to be a heritable disease it is theorized that screening of dachshunds at 2 years of age with radiographs, looking for disk calcification, can be an early indicator for IVD.

Today, the general veterinary consensus is that hip dysplasia is a heritable disease manifested as hip joint laxity that leads to the development of OA.

They can be prone to a number of heritable diseases, though nothing too serious and life - threatening.

Screens breeding stock for heritable diseases; removes affected animals from breeding program.

If we disqualified all of the dogs with the slightest elbow issue, we would lose 31 % of the breeding population in every generation, compounding a genepool problem that is historically present in purebred dogs, and far more dangerous to the dogs than any heritable disease.

Bitches that require thyroid medication to support a pregnancy may have an autoimmune disease and may pass this heritable disease to their offspring.

And while it might be a good thing to know the past so that in politics we don't repeat our mistakes more than a few hundred times, there's nothing we can do about who we are as individuals, as tips of branches on the family bush — apart from those relatively few cases, of course, where there's concern about a heritable disease or condition.