- Has the university already a validated HD test for an other breed?
There is a validated test for GSD- Is this the price of € 300 for an (already for CsW validated) real test?
The price for the 24 dogs is 7 Euros for the storage from the 200 on it is 300 per dog
- Or is this a price for research and validation of the test for CsW?
Because for me it would be crazy to pay as an owner such a price for research!
The laboratory told me that is the price they have to take for research but there is a good chance to get to funds
For example:
In other countries there are also labs and university’s working on DNA test for HD. And theses research labs are asking EDTA blood but owners do not have to pay for research!
The university Maisons-Alfort in France is working on a DNA test for PRA special for CsW, owners can send blood, but do not have to pay for research.
Before the dwarfism test was validated for CsW, all owners of carriers could send EDTA blood for free for the research.
And only when the test was real validated and working for CsW, the owners has to pay for the test (about € 100)
German Universities have a strong lack of money
Storage
When people pay € 7 for storage a blood sample it is a low price
But what are the arrangements with the lab about this storage??
For example:- For how long is the storage?
As long as we want- Who is the owner of the blood sample? The owner? The group that manage the data? The lab?
The lab- And who can decide for what tests the blood is used in future?
The lab but you can say you don´t want your blood to be used for anything else- Which other test this university research lab has for CsW breed?
interesting ones are at the moment ED and Epilepsy, the procedure is the same- Can an owner or the group (who manage the data) decide which test will be done with this blood?
Yes, you can say that by sending the blood in the beginning- When an owner or the manage group wants to do a test of this storage blood in an other lab, what do they count for distillate DNA and sending to an other lab?
It is a no problem to send necessary samples to other labs to moderate costs, they couldn´t tell me the cost directly but it isn´t much.
My suggestion for an
international DNA research database for CsW breed, was based on an international group (of breeding clubs) that can manage this database for the health of the whole population.
But also to provide that owners have to send blood for every new test, or has to pay a lot for research or tests!
You don´t have to send in new blood but if you want to have any new results
When an international “manage group” has a lot of blood samples of the same breed in storage, they are very interesting for several labs!!
So such an int. group can negotiate with labs for developing/research of tests. And then they can negotiate with labs for quantum discount for tests!
And I hope the German initiative will work out in this way!