Sentences with phrase «pedigrees of affected dogs»

Often this is done by placing an ad listing the names and perhaps pedigrees of affected dogs or posting them on a breed discussion list or website.

Not exact matches

Pedigrees are evaluated carefully to lessen the risk of doubling up on a carrier and potentially causing a situation that could produce affected dogs.

The parents and full and half siblings of an affected dog should not be bred close on the pedigree that produced it and should be bred to mates that do not have a family history of iris coloboma.

(Example from the pedigree: Half the sire's carrier risk is.0625 and half the dam's carrier risk is.0838, so the chance of producing an affected dog is.0625 x.0838 =.0052 or 0.52 %.)

First - step relatives of affected dogs (parents, full and half siblings, and offspring) should be bred only to mates with pedigrees as clear of lymphoma as possible and who have no affected close relatives.

If it is not known whether the individual in the pedigree is affected, then the carrier risk is one - half the sire's carrier risk plus one - half the dam's carrier risk, minus the affected risk of the dog.

Experienced breeders who study their dogs pedigree well, can often successfully breed double dapple doxies which do not have problems, as not all of these dogs are affected, but the risk is there so not many tend to do this.

Analysis of pedigrees from 4005 Bernese mountain dogs with 50 affected dogs revealed a polygenic, recessive mode of inheritance with a predisposition for males 7.

The major observation made from examining the pedigree was that the vast majority of affected dogs were born to healthy parents (143 affected dogs from 112 litters).

However, breeders and owners of Golden do need to be aware that these conditions exist, so that they can limit the use of mildly affected dogs, close relatives of affected dogs, or repeated producers of these conditions, in pedigrees.

The collecting of, pedigree data around the affected dogs is being done from the published list in the Breed Supplement.

But without knowing about the affected dogs in a pedigree, breeders are doomed to continue breeding proven carriers and other close relatives, to the misfortune of those who purchase puppies from these crosses.

However, in a general sense, the decision to test or not should include considerations such as: the seriousness of the disease, the reliability of the test, the prevalence of the disease in the breed, and the presence of affected or carrier dogs in the vertical pedigree.

Through this program, PWD owners and breeders contacted OptiGen to provide pedigrees, eye exam reports and blood samples from EOPRA affected dogs and their relatives to achieve a critical mass of research material needed for a successful gene hunt.

After studying pedigrees of today's Old English Sheepdogs, it would not be surprising to find affected dogs from diverse backgrounds in America, England, Australia, Japan, or other countries.

To facilitate health research on genetic diseases affecting Bernese Mountain Dogs, the Berner - Garde Foundation (BGF) had a vision of creating a repository of DNA and tumor tissue that would augment the pedigree and current medical information stored in the Berner - Garde Database.

Although the definitive mode of inheritance is often difficult to estimate from pedigrees due to missing phenotypes, our pedigrees in all breeds suggest a strong genetic influence with multiple affected dogs across generations and even within several litters.

Pedigree analysis of nearly 300 Swedish vallhund dogs, including 125 affected animals, indicates a clear genetic contribution (Fig. 5).

To facilitate health research on genetic diseases affecting Bernese Mountain Dogs, the Berner - Garde Foundation had a goal of creating a repository of DNA and tumor tissue that would augment the pedigree and medical information stored in the Berner - Garde Database.

This pedigree is composed of nearly 300 dogs, including 125 animals affected with the breed - specific retinopathy.