The Flatcoated Retriever Club of
Scotland
Animal Health Trust
Blood sample Submission for Flatcoated Retriever
Research
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We are
pleased to let you know that the AHT are willing to store DNA from blood of
the Flatcoated Retriever for future investigations. At this time storage is a free service, in the same way that
cancer tissue samples are used for research so will the DNA samples. There is
a possibility in the future that this will complement the cancer research
done by Jane Dobson. As with a tissue
sample the responsibility and cost of taking a sample are yours the owners. |
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Cathryn
Mellersh writes. At the
Animal Health Trust we currently offer to extract DNA from blood and store it
here free of charge, providing it is made available to us for research
purposes. For each blood sample we
accept we ask for a copy of a five generation pedigree, so we have a record
of exactly who the dog is, and also copies of any vet diagnoses / eye
certificates / hip scores etc that the dog might have. We have thousands of DNA samples in
storage and it is vital we get all the above information for us to keep tract
of who’s who. It is very
disappointing to be sent a sample which can’t be used because we don’t know
enough about the dog it was taken from.
We collect the blood in 5ml EDTA tubes and ask that the blood be sent,
at room temperature, straight to us.”
We have a
form online available (see below) to be printed off, which needs to be filled
in and sent with the blood with the 5 generation pedigree and health records
to the address on the form by your Vet. Cathryn
continued “We get asked
a lot about what happens concerning DNA samples and test results, once a test
is developed. We never publish the results of any individual
result. If we were to publish the general result in the scientific
literature we would never include any individual details, so particular dogs
could never be identified. The owners of dogs that had contributed to
the research would be informed of their results, but what they do with the
information is up to them. It is up to the breed what they do when a
test is available, regarding whether testing is made compulsory, etc.
All we would do is to offer the test as a service, but of course the dogs
that had contributed to the research would in effect be tested for free.” This is a
service that we may not reap the benefits from in the lifetime of our current
dogs. It’s based on long term research.
At this time it is for us as owners to decide if, or what dog’s blood
is collected. All Flatcoat owners
can use this service. It would be
advisable if you have a stud dog or brood bitch, or if one have several
generations of one family. Possibly
it would be worth talking to your Veterinarian if your Flatcoat is under
treatment for a health condition. It
is a very simple procedure. |
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Form to be completed with pedigree and
health details (requires Adobe
Acrobat) |
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Visit the Animal Health Trust website at
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