Genetic evaluation of the nine component features of hip score in UK labrador retrievers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Lewis, Thomas W ^a   Woolliams, John A ^b   Blott, Sarah C ^a  

^a ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREED; CANINE HIP DYSPLASIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HERITABILITY; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; JOINT LAXITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; REGISTER; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GENETICS; HIP; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOLOGY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; DOGS; GREAT BRITAIN; HIP; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

EID: 78149440219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013610     Document Type: Article

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