In recessive inheritance, both parents must carry a defective ... As such, it is advisable not to breed affected dogs and carriers. Genetic testing can also help identify carriers and guide breeding ...

But recessive genes can proliferate more pervasively, because carriers with one copy can lead perfectly healthy lives and have lots of children, some of whom will also carry the recessive gene on ...

Predictably, this led to some purebred dogs passing on, generation after generation, recessive genes that have resulted in a toxic soup of physical abnormalities and disease susceptibilities.

Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ...

Finnish Hound ataxia is a single gene defect, inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. According to the research, 10% of Finnish Hounds carries the recessive ataxia mutation in their genome.

Researchers have identified a genetic mutation causing progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) in the Phalene and Papillon dog breeds. PRA is one of the most common causes of blindness in dogs and in human.

Your dog's life expectancy may not be easy to think about, but it can be a necessary family conversation to have. Here's how long dogs typically live.

The mutation is recessive, so the dog needs to have two copies of the mutation to have the disease. About 10 percent of Finnish hounds are carriers of this mutation, meaning they have one copy of ...

When the dog genome sequence was published in 2005, Lindblad-Toh et al. 5 hypothesized that breed structure would enable mapping of simple recessive traits in dogs with a genomewide association ...

Due to a mutation of the FGF5 gene, Sailor's coat is longer than you would usually expect to see in a pit bull, giving him a distinct look. The owner sent off for a dog DNA test with Embark to ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Folkhälsan Research Center, Finland, have identified the genetic cause of early-onset progressive cerebellar degeneration the Finnish Hound dog ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Folkhälsan Research Center, Finland, have identified the genetic cause of early-onset progressive cerebellar degeneration the Finnish Hound dog ...