Sentences with phrase «positive heterozygous»

Breeding recommendations: Since it is estimated that about 30 % of the Maine Coon population has the mutation we do not recommend withholding all positive heterozygous cats out of the breeding program.

Since most cats that are positive heterozygous do not get sick from the disease it may be reasonable to consider breeding these cats to a Negative cat, screening the kittens and trying to select a Negative kitten to keep as a replacement breeding animal in the next litter or so.

We would never recommend breeding a positive heterozygous cat to a positive heterozygous cat since this could produce homozygous cats, which are more likely to become sick from this disease.

Positive Heterozygous (1 copy of the mutated gene and 1 copy of a normal gene) Dogs that are positive heterozygous should be carefully evaluated for signs of disease (Holter monitor and possibly an echocardiogram).

Not exact matches

In mice heterozygous for tau - lacZ targeted to the melanopsin gene locus, β - galactosidase — positive RGC axons projected to the SCN and other brain nuclei involved in circadian photoentrainment or the pupillary light reflex.

In order to characterize this possible imbalance, we performed in vitro brain slice whole patch - clamp recordings from the Q175 heterozygous knock - in HD mouse model expressing GFP under the control of the D2 receptor promoter to identify dSPNs (GFP - negative) and iSPNs (GFP - positive).

Careful consideration needs to be taken in breeding from cats that are heterozygous positive on the gene test (have one normal gene and one mutated gene).