Fred got back to me with "Here's my latest with DM" (and asked me to put it on his site):
http://www.fredlanting.org/2010/02/t...athy%E2%80%9D/
While I didn't see the article go into the actual genetics, your way (jmvdwiel) makes more sense (my way would have had the disease elimiated naturally unless there was either very bad luck or far more A/A dogs than believed).
Still - this means an A/A lines could have the DM "bred out" in two generations.
A/A to an N/N - All "carriers"
N/A to another N/A - half carriers, half not carriers (no DM).
It's sad that so many GSD breeders refuse to test for DM but claim "it's not in my lines!" (yet how do you know if you don't test?). Any dog that we consider to breed to Kiri has to be DM tested.
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Originally Posted by GalomyOak
Thanks Mijke! 
On my next pay check, I will test at least a couple of dogs, and then the other two on the paycheck after that. The Missouri test is better for another reason - in the US (or anywhere), the results are displayed on the OFA database, along with all of our dog's other information (except for PennHip results - hopefully UPenn will have an online database someday  ). The cost for this test is US$65.
Marcy |
Did you test Luna's parents? What were the results?
$65 is well worth the test.