Researchers Connect the Dots on Spotted Coat Color Genetics
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
November 16, 2017
Base coat color and horse sex appear to play significant roles in spotting patterns, researchers learned.
Base coat color and horse sex appear to play significant roles in spotting patterns, researchers learned.
Gene doping’s effects, good or bad, remain unclear. It might not affect performance and could have serious side effects.
The “Gaitkeeper” gene mutation has been linked to success in trotting races in Standardbreds.
An “athletic” heart is a heritable characteristic linked to good endurance performance, researchers confirmed.
The center will DNA test all Thoroughbred foals and serve 30 other horse breed societies across Australia.
Researchers can now detect more than 90% of the chromosomal abnormalities in horses, including sex reversal syndrome.
About 30% of Fell Ponies and 18% of Dales Ponies are mutation carriers. The syndrome is also found in Gypsy Horses.
Dr. Ernest Bailey shares information about genetic diseases that related to specific breeds.
Lavender foal, lethal white, blindness, and deafness are all color-related genetic problems. Dr. Samantha Brooks explains.
Dr. Samantha Brooks explains how dominant and recessive genes differ and how they are expressed in individual horses.
Dr. Ernest Bailey explains how to collect a DNA sample from your horse and how the lab tests it.
Researchers say naked foal syndrome is related to a nonsense gene variant and appears to be unique to Akhal-Tekes.
Of the 270 respondents, only 74 (27%) said they’ve had a horse tested for a genetic disorder or disease.
Research is offering more insight into inherited diseases and conditions in our horses. Learn more about HYPP, PSSM, overo lethal white syndrome, lavender foal syndrome, HERDA, SCID, and more.
The paternal lines of nearly all modern horses trace to stallions brought to Europe from Asia over the last 700 years.
Genetic and genomic research could help veterinarians diagnose disease early and select more targeted treatments.
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