Practical Horse Genetics (Australia)

Our last day of testing for the year will be 22 December. The lab will start up again on 2 January 2024.

You can still place new orders and send us samples while we are on break, ready for when we reopen.

QH health panel

Summary

This panel currently consists of the seven tests currently offered for Quarter Horses. They are also relevant for Paint horses, Appaloosas, Quarter Ponies and other breeds that have incorporated QH lines. These are frame overo, PSSM1, HERDA, GBED, MH, HYPP, with the recent addition of IMM.

Tests in this panel

PSSM1 | GBED | HERDA | HYPP | IMM/MYHM | MH | OLWS

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Order tests

There is a one-off sample processing fee of $40 per animal plus the cost of your tests.

How many animals are you testing? Discount or society code:

Pedigree

$33 A DNA profile ... more

Panels

Colour panels

$40 Dilutions panel ... more

$120 Full colour panel ... more

$70 Patterns panel ... more

Panels by breed

$100 Arabian health & colour ... more

$50 Arabian health panel ... more

$66 Fjord horse panel ... more

$40 Friesian health & colour ... more

$120 Gypsy health & colour ... more

$50 Miniature ACAN panel ... more

$250 Miniature health & colour ... more

$160 QH health & colour ... more

$90 QH health panel

Good moves

Gaited horses

$9 Lateral gait marker ... more

Good looks

Coat colour

$9 Agouti (bay factor) (agouti) ... more

$9 Red/black ... more

Coat pattern

$9 Frame overo/lethal white syndrome (OLWS) ... more

$9 Grey/melanoma ... more

$9 Lp/Appaloosa/night blindness (Lp) ... more

$9 PATN1 coat pattern modifier (PATN1) ... more

$9 Roan marker ... more

$9 Sabino 1 ... more

$9 Splashed white 1/deafness (SW1) ... more

$9 Splashed white 2/deafness (SW2) ... more

$9 Splashed white 3/deafness (SW3) ... more

$9 Splashed white 5/deafness (SW5) ... more

$9 Tobiano ... more

$9 W13 dominant white (W13) ... more

$9 W20 white markings (W20) ... more

$9 W22 dominant white (W22) ... more

$9 W25 dominant white (W25) ... more

$9 W26 dominant white (W26) ... more

$9 W27 dominant white (W27) ... more

Pure- and part-bred Akhal-Tekes

$14 Naked foal syndrome (NFS) ... more

Pure- and part-bred Connemaras

$14 Hoof wall separation disease (HWSD) ... more

Good looks

Colour dilution

$9 Champagne ... more

$9 Cream ... more

$9 Dun and nd1 (dun/nd1) ... more

$9 Pearl ... more

$9 Taffy/silver/eye abnormalities (silver) ... more

Good health

Multiple breeds

$14 Cerebellar abiotrophy (CA) ... more

$14 Foal immunodeficiency syndrome (FIS) ... more

$14 Fragile foal syndrome (FFS) ... more

$9 Frame overo/lethal white syndrome (OLWS) ... more

$9 Grey/melanoma ... more

$9 Lp/Appaloosa/night blindness (Lp) ... more

$14 Ocular squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) ... more

$14 Polysaccharide storage myopathy 1 (PSSM1) ... more

$9 Splashed white 1/deafness (SW1) ... more

$9 Taffy/silver/eye abnormalities (silver) ... more

Pure- and part-bred Arabians

$14 Cerebellar abiotrophy (CA) ... more

$14 Lavender foal syndrome (LFS) ... more

$14 Occipitoatlantoaxial malformation (OAAM) ... more

$14 Severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) ... more

Pure- and part-bred Friesians

$14 Friesian dwarfism ... more

$14 Hydrocephalus ... more

Pure- and part-bred Miniature horses

$14 D1 form of Miniature dwarfism (D1) ... more

$14 D2 form of Miniature dwarfism (D2) ... more

$14 D3* form of Miniature dwarfism (D3*) ... more

$14 D4 form of Miniature dwarfism (D4) ... more

$140 Skeletal atavism (SA) ... more

Pure- and part-bred QH and/or Paint

$14 Glycogen branching enzyme deficiency (GBED) ... more

$14 Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA) ... more

$14 Hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis (HYPP) ... more

$14 Immune mediated myositis/myosin heavy-chain myopathy (IMM/MYHM) ... more

$14 Malignant hyperthermia (MH) ... more

$14 Polysaccharide storage myopathy 1 (PSSM1) ... more

$9 Splashed white 2/deafness (SW2) ... more

$9 Splashed white 3/deafness (SW3) ... more

$9 Splashed white 5/deafness (SW5) ... more

Pure- and part-bred Saddlebreds

$14 Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB2) ... more

Tests can be in the list more than once when the gene in question has more than one effect. It is OK to select the same test once or more than once, the price is the same.