Tackling Inherited Disease

From the Dog Breeding Reform group's inaugural meeting...

Lecture - video and slides

Terms and concepts...Multifactorial traits,  Genetic factors, Environmental factors, Threshold effect, Lafora’s disease, MWHD, Degenerative Myelopathy, whole breed management, Simple (single gene), Complex, Single gene disorder, Simple autosomal recessive, Homozygous clear, Heterozygote (carrier), Homozygous affected, coat colours, incompletely penetrant autosomal recessive, Complex inheritance, Polygenic traits, Wobblers, Diagnostic test may expensive and/or inconclusive, Effect of environment / other factors, standards, epigenetics, immune mediated disease and more...