Juvenile Renal Disease

[shortstep]

What is it

http://www.vetprof.com/clientinfo/juvenilerenal.html

Patent pending on this very notable new reserch! Another break through towards better dog breeding on the way??

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%...al.pone.0016684

Edited February 13, 2011 by shortstep

[Jed]

Couldn't get the second website. Cocker breeders organised and financially supported research into the causes of Familial Neuropathy, which was fatal, pups rarely lived past 5 months. Now all breeding cockers can be tested and the genes identified, which means that no more affected dogs should be bred. dogs may be clear by parentage.

No doubt now there is a gene identified in cockers, finding it in other breeds should require less research

Juvenal Renal Disease is another - and I have no doubt that ongoing research will discover the genes responsible. Cockers may be afflicted by this as well, and the situation is difficult now, there is no way of knowing whethr the pups will be affected or not until the mating is done and the pups are a few months old

there was a lot of discussion on FN in cockers on this forum a few years ago.