Sentences with phrase «until affected offspring»

There is little chance of eliminating all carriers from a breeding program since they are not apparent «until affected offspring are produced.

Not exact matches

However, if an X-linked disease does not arise until an animal is breeding age, even affected males may produce offspring before the disease is identified.

Roughly the same situation occurs with a dominant disease that has a post - reproductive age of onset, since as many as half of the offspring of an affected dog will become afflicted in their lifetime, but not until they have passed on the disease gene to half of their offspring.