Sentences with phrase «other inherited eye diseases»

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«Gene - delivery system prevents vision loss from inherited eye disease: Initial testing in animal models holds promise for treating Leber congenital amauroisis and other congenital visual disorders.»

Genes, alone or in combination, determine what features a person inherits from his or her parents, such as blood type, hair color, eye color and other characteristics, including risks of developing certain diseases.

If a parent has bone or joint disease, allergic skin disease, bad teeth and gums, ear infections, eye problems, separation anxiety, destructive behavior, tender feet (cutting toe nails), oily musty skin odor, coprophagy, liver, heart or kidney disease, bladder stones, asthma, fatty tumors, poor physique or coordination, umbilical and other hernias or another disease, then the puppy is at least ten times as likely to inherit these problems than a puppy from healthier parents.

Failure to do annual eye exams through at least 10 years of age, or assuming that any retinal defect found can't be inherited because the dog or its parents have cleared the prcd test has the potential to result in increased frequency of those other and presently rare forms of retinal disease because breeders are makng mating choices based on false assumptions.

It should be noted that many breeds of dog are known to carry multiple forms of inherited retinal disease and the DNA test will not replace the need to remain vigilant for other forms of inherited eye disease in the breed.

This number far exceeds those associated with any other category of disease, meaning that inherited eye diseases are arguably better understood, at both the clinical and genetic level, than any other category of canine disease.

Responsible breeders will routinely check their dogs for the onset of various inherited disorders, these commonly include (but are not limited to): CERF examinations on eyes, OFA patellar examinations, OFA thyroid function panels, von Willebrand's factor, OFA hip and Legg - Perthes disease x-rays, and others.

The European College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ECVO) Scheme (http://www.ecvo.org/) is in use in seven European countries, and individual ECVO Diplomates work in accordance with the scheme in other countries to control presumed inherited diseases of the eye and its adnexa.

The three schemes listed above, and other comparable schemes in place around the world, differ incrementally from one another in the precise ways in which they are operated, but they all serve to document and register dogs affected with, and free from, inherited eye diseases.