PCD in OES
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| Sort of new. But there's a genetic (DNA) test (available for just over a year or so now?), so it is easy to avoid producing any affected puppies going forward simply by testing both prospective parents before doing a breeding. Kristine |
http://www.hazylandoes.com/pcdinoes.htm |
| Is there a database for the kennel club for this ?. If not there should be & if its like the human one how would they know unless the pupply is born as might skip generations |
Parwaz wrote: Is there a database for the kennel club for this ?. If not there should be & if its like the human one how would they know unless the pupply is born as might skip generations Not an issue with this affliction since we know the mode of inheritance and we can even know which gene mutation is responsible - i.e. there is a DNA test and you simply test both prospective sire and dam before you breed them and if neither carry the gene mutation they cannot pass it, i.e. none of the puppies will inherit the gene in question. When I bred Mace last fall both she and the dog I bred her were tested and only carry normal copies of the gene, thus their puppies are what they refer to as "cleared by pedigree" (translation: you can't produce what ain't there to begin with) Even if one of the prospective parents is a carrier (but not both) you can still safely do the breeding, because the worst you will produce are carriers. But to know that you would have to test the entire litter. Over time, for the breed as a whole, the goal is to reduce the rate of carriers. The immediate goal, obviously, is to never produce an affected puppy.This only works if people bother to test, obviously. There's no formal database specifically for PCD test results that I know of at this time, though a Norwegian OES group does have a list of dogs' whose results have been reported to them for "publication" on their website. See: http://www.oes.no/ and scroll down to PCD and OES. Kristine |
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