Canine Genetics Research

Check out this news article summarizing some of the work from our lance canine paper!

National Academy of Sciences features undergraduate research that identifies new genetic factors contributing to small body size in dogs Clemson grad student Sydney Abrams and her mentor Leigh Anne Clark have identified new genetic factors contributing to small body size in dogs.

Our research on lance canines in Shetland sheepdogs is now published! We discovered that lance canines correlate with smaller body size and identified a region on chromosome 9 associated with reduced size/lance canine risk in Shelties! Thank you to all who contributed samples for this study!

Variants in FtsJ RNA 2′-O-Methyltransferase 3 and Growth Hormone 1 are associated with small body size and a dental anomaly in dogs Through the study of a dental anomaly we identified a locus strongly associated with body size in the Shetland Sheepdog. Within this locus are variants in two genes: a substitution in FtsJ RNA 2′-O-Methyltransferase 3 ( FTSJ3 ) and a splice donor insertion in Growth Hormone 1 ( GH1 ). We demonstra...