Sentences with phrase «multiple affected offspring»

Healthy dogs which produce multiple affected offspring, particularly with different mates, should be withdrawn from breeding.

Not exact matches

When clinically normal dogs produce affected offspring, it strongly suggests the disease is inherited as a simple recessive (or potentially a polygenic — multiple gene) trait, and both parents carry one «bad» copy of the gene causing the disease.

• Not knowingly repeat a breeding of any pair of individuals who, although free from a hereditary defects themselves, have produced multiple afflicted offspring with hereditary defects that affect the quality of life of their offspring.