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French Bulldog puppy with the cocoa coat color

New Dog DNA Test: Cocoa Coat Color

June 30, 2020
The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory is excited to announce the launch of a new dog coat color test for a visually distinct brown coat color, known as cocoa, that occurs in French Bulldogs.
New Tests
Tennessee Walking Horse

New Horse DNA Tests Launched

June 11, 2020
The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory has launched three new horse tests, one of which was researched and developed at the VGL.
New Tests
American Quarter Horse

Expanded Availability of Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy (PSSM1) Test

June 11, 2020
The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory is pleased to announce that it is now licensed to offer the Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy (PSSM1) test to the general public as both a standalone test and part of a genetic disease panel for Quarter Horses and related breeds.
New Tests
Horses running on the racetrack

VGL's Dr. Rebecca Bellone Featured in Equine Veterinary Journal Podcast

May 21, 2020
In early April, VGL Director Dr. Rebecca Bellone joined the Equine Veterinary Journal podcast "EVJ in Conversation" to discuss catastrophic breakdown in racehorses as well as her recent paper, which found no evidence of linkage between catastrophic breakdown and the mutation that causes Warmblood fragile foal syndrome type 1 (WFFS).
Large Animal
Dachshund with doleful expression

Managing the Genetics of Chondrodystrophy (CDDY)

Chondrodystrophy occurs in many breeds, changing the character of all of the intervertebral discs at a young age and causing degenerative processes that predispose the discs to herniate. Unlike other disease-causing mutations found in dogs, the mutation that causes chondrodystrophy is not a change within a gene but is instead the insertion of an extra copy of a gene to a new location on a different chromosome.
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