While I agree that people are more inclined to support a registry that publishes good news, I still wish that we had an open registry that gives us all the known information. By having access to that information, we could start to piece together the puzzles about carrier status and recessives. We would be able to know more about the genetic baggage that our dogs are carrying. I know that you are correct that if people were mandatorily required to report all of the testing information in any society, they simply wouldn't test. I'm not sure why that is, but I suppose it has something to do with the competitive nature of showing dogs for sport. All we can do at this point is the best we can do. Myra Savant
>From: Cavatibs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] genotype v phenotype >Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:59:14 -0500 > >The UK Cavalier Club and the CKCSC have both sponsored Heart and Health >Registries, listing only heart CLEAR dogs. If the breeders do not support >these >publications (as was pointed out by Annette Jones' post a while ago and is >obvious >by reading the dogs listed in the CKCSC Registry versus the CKCSC >Statistics) when >the Registry includes only the clear dogs, then there is absolutely no >chance that >breeders are going to support an open registry where breeders will submit >their >dogs that are affected as well as clear. The only way an open registry will >work >well to substantially reduce the incidence of MVD is if, as with the >British BVA >eye scheme or HD scoring scheme, the results are submitted directly from >the >cardiologist to the Club sponsored open registry for publication and >subsequently >placed on the registration papers - this would be in an ideal world. The >problem, >however, that has evolved in Britain with these two schemes is that few >breeders >check for HD and some have stopped having their dogs' eyes tested >altogether which >does not do the breed any good. This, in my opinion, is why the BVA eye >scheme >(or similar Heart scheme) will have no support-- if you have no >participants, the >dogs' hearts will then not be checked by a cardiologist and the incidence >of MVD >will skyrocket. Better that the registry publish only the good news >which will >allow breeders to examine which dogs to breed, which lines to go for, based >on the >ages and heart status of the dogs in these registries. > >Anne > >cavlover wrote: > > > And of course, Laura, Dr. Padgett and other geneticists recommend that >parent > > breed clubs sponsor an open registry for health testing results as well. > > Breed clubs who have sponsored such open regisries can truly begin to >collect > > the data that may help breeders to comprehend the mode of transmission >on these > > genetically transmitted diseases. At that point, progress can be made. > > However, it is pretty clear that there is a still very little knowledge >in the > > breeding community about genetics, and very little interest in learning >more. > > > > Myra Savant > > > > ========================================================= > >========================================================= >"Magic Commands": >to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL >to start it up gain click here: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. >Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > >All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
