Application: Identification of carriers for straight coat.
In most dog breeds curly hair is caused by a mutation in the KRT71 gene. A single defect is sufficient representing a dominant autosomal mode of inheritance. This mode allows for carriers with hidden non-curly alleles. Mating of a carrier dam with a carrier sire will result in 25% non-curly offspring. Long hair...

Application: - Carrier identification. Coat color dilution is autosomal-recessive. Dilution manifests if the mutation is homozygous (d/d). A dog with two variant copies of the MLPH gene will have a blue, charcoal, Isabella (lilac) or fawn coat color depending on the other coat color genes present in the individual. In some breeds dilute coat color can be associated with...

Application: - Identification of heterozygous carriers.
'Furnishings' are the long eyebrows and whiskers of wire-haired dogs. The predisposition is autosomal-dominant, so that only by testing can it be determined whether a phenotypically wire-haired animal is homozygous or heterozygous for 'Furnishings' and the wire-haired coat texture. Knowing the predisposition to...

Application.:
- Identification of carriers for long hair in short-haired dogs. - Proof of long-hair predisposition in cases of unclear phenotype.
Long hair is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion, meaning that two copies (status L/L) of the long hair variant are required to produce long hair. Dogs with one copy (K/L) or no copies (K/K) will have short hair.

Anwendung: Identifikation der typischen und kryptischen 'Merle'-Anlage. 'Merle' ist eine Farbvariation, die auf Grund der autosomal-dominanten Vererbung bei einer einzelnen Mutation im SILV-Gen auftritt. Voraussetzung ist, dass am E-Lokus eine 'E'-Anlage gegeben ist. Das Ausmaß der Merle-Zeichnung variiert stark. Bei reinerbigen Auftreten sind die Folgen je nach Rasse z.T....