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COI: How Many Generations are Enough?
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 23 CommentsIn her published paper, A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds, Claire Wade would have you believe that looking at 4.1 generations of Toller data is enough to get […] -
Pedigree Collapse
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 13 CommentsIt’s common to visualize one’s ancestry as a pyramid with the current individual at the apex descending back across time and generations in an expanding wedge. Every generation has twice the number of […] -
For Whom the Dog Tolls
Posted on October 1, 2011 | 16 CommentsNUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS. Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as […] -
The 3 Types of Genetic Inheritance
Posted on September 1, 2011 | 4 CommentsDogs, like humans, have three types of genetic code which behave uniquely and can thus have different measures of diversity: autosomes, allosomes, and the mitochondrial chromosome. . Autosomes are all the […] -
Sine Qua Non Dog Disorders
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 45 CommentsA sine qua non disorder is one that is both universal and definitional within a breed. To remove the genes that cause the trait, disorder, dysfunction, or disease would fundamentally […]