Actually -
Concerning epilepsy I do believe that it is a rare condition for CSVs - but certainly not something which is unknown (I have heard of a couple of cases) if a test is available for the gene which causes inherited epilepsy and IF the CSVs which suffer from epilepsy actually carry the gene (there could be other reasons for the epilepsy - it does not have to be hereditary) then as a breeder I would certainly be interested in knowing this to prevent crossing two CSVs which are carriers of the epilepsy gene and which could therefore potentially produce epileptic pups.
One thing that is important to understand is that for this test (or indeed any other test) to have any real value for the CSV community it needs to be performed on a significant proportion of CSVs - it is no good my knowing what the result of my dogs epilepsy assays are when I have no idea what the situation in other dogs may be like. I might have some information on hand (ie my dogs results from the genetic assay) but unless I can compare them to other peoples results in for the same assay I cannot possibly use that information to make an informed decision at the time of mating.
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