Re: Ping: Matt - re: epilepsy

Janet B <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said in
rec.pets.dogs.health:

Dr. Yuri F. Melekhovets, Laboratory Director of HealthGene
Corp., Toronto, Canada, has announced that his group has
located the gene responsible for producing inherited
epilepsy in canines.

Thanks, Janet.

The latest word from Dr Melekhovets is that he *thinks* that he
*may have* isolated the gene. I spoke with him a little while
ago and he said that many of the recent announcements have been
wishful thinking - he's still working on correlation between
different breeds and differing severities. An earlier (6 months
ago?) different study (not his) which had claimed (at least in
the press reports) to have isolated the gene was also premature
because it only used a group of very closely related dogs and
the results were not repeatable. I may have misunderstood some
of what he said because of accent and big words.

Anyway, he's asking that people not send him blood samples until
he's talked with them. He's apparently been inundated with
samples from dogs whose siezures were not epilepsy related.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.
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