Well, finally I got through to the person working at the HD-DNA research. It is done by the Veterinary University in Hannover. They do DNA-Blood-storages at their institute the price per blood sample is only 7,-- Euros. At the moment they have quite a lot of research done on dogs HD, Epilepsy, Cardiomyopathy, ED, Genetic Eye Diseases and so on.
Going back to the HD, they want for a start 24 Blood samples, 12 HD A, 12 HD C - E of dogs that are as less related as possible. When we manage to get that far they will talk with us about how to carry on. It may be possible to get this amount in Germany but I would like to ask for international help because the dogs should be of a wider genetic range than we have here. We will at least need 100 HD A and 100 HD C - E to do the research and the price could be (that has to be talked about) as high as 300 Euros per dog! There are possibilities to get money out of research funds.
So please if anybody is interesting in joining the research please get in contact with me:
[email protected]
If I see the possibility to get at least 200 dogs I will try to get the best price possible. At least we should try to get a Blood-storage there for further research.
Here are further informations:
http://www.tierzucht-hannover.de/hd.html
it is on German but I will start to translate it in English this evening and put it into the forum.
Ina