Equine DNA testing
Genetic disorders
Packages
5 panel, 6 panel (QH, Paint etc.)
Various breeds
Overo lethal white syndrome (frame overo)
Congenital stationary night blindness (appaloosa)
Polysaccharide storage myopathy type 1 (PSSM1)
Arabians, pure and part-bred
Severe combined immune deficiency (SCID)
Friesians, pure and part-bred
Warmbloods, pure and part-bred
Fell Ponies, Dale Ponies and Gypsy horses, pure and part-bred
Foal immunodeficiency syndrome (FIS)
Quarter horses and related breeds, pure and part-bred
Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP)
Glycogen enzyme branching deficiency (GBED)
Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA)
Saddlebred and related breeds, pure and part-bred
Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB)
Akhal Teke, pure and part-bred
Connemara, pure and part-bred
Hoof wall separation disease (HWSD)
Coat colour tests
Parentage
Us
Practical Horse Genetics
Why test for Naked Foal Syndrome?
Naked foal syndrome (NFS) is a fatal inherited disorder that has been found in pure and part-bred Akhal Teke horses. Foals with NFS are born without hair, and may have other physical abnormalities too. All NFS-affected horses recorded so far have died before three years of age. The cause of death is not known.
NFS is an autosomal recessive disorder. Autosomal disorders are equally likely to affect male or female horses, while "recessive" means that a horse needs to inherit the NFS mutation from both its sire and its dam to be affected. Horses that have inherited the NFS mutation from just one parent are called NFS carriers, and do not have physical signs of this disorder.
Our information and terminology is based on the sequences and content in Bauer et al. (2017): https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.039511
NFS
Foals or horses with NFS are striking. This light colour on this one is because it is cremello.
