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Gidday

tuckerbe@zebu.cvm.msu.edu (TUCKER, BETH M.) wrote in
rec.pets.dogs.breeds:

>I am a 3rd year vet student at Michigan State University and am currently 
>working on a research project on Great Danes on the heritity of gastric 
>dilation volvulus (otherwise known as bloat or torsion).  I and the professor 
>that I am working with on this project believe that this condition is heritary 
>and would like to prove that it is and find the gene responsible.  To be able 
>to do this we need willing owners and breeders to let us look at their lines 
>and follow the incidence of the problem.  I assure all people who are 
>interested and willing to help us on this deadly problem that no names of any 
>owner, breeder, dog, etc will ever be known outside the project group.  All 
>dogs will be given numbers and will be referred to only by their number in the 
>study.  I strongly encourage everyone to help us out for currently there is 
>not a cure for this problem except surgery and this only works is caught early 
>on in the stages.  If we do prove this to be "in the genes" we can then form a 
>test that can show carriers of the disease and then work toward eliminating 
>this problem from the breed.  If you are interested to getting involved in 
>this study please write me at

>                                tuckerbe@zebu.cvm.msu.edu

>Thanks for your time!
>Beth Tucker

I think we should all support this!   It's not just Danes that get
bloat!

Regards


Shane
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