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Quantifying the effect of Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome on foaling rates in the German riding horse population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2022
Wobbe Mirell, Reinhardt Friedrich, Reents Reinhard, Tetens Jens, Stock Kathrin F
Abstract excerpt
Awareness of breeders of Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome (WFFS) increased after a widely discussed case in the USA in 2018. The hereditary connective tissue disorder, first described by a US research group in 2011 and for which a commercial genetic test exists since 2013, is caused by a point mutation in the PLOD1 gene, inherited autosomal recessively. Extension of molecular genetic testing and reporting of test...
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