Phenotype, inheritance characteristics, and risk factors for idiopathic epilepsy in Finnish Spitz dogs

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 243, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1001-1009

  Viitmaa, Ranno ^a,b   Cizinauskas, Sigitas ^a,c   Orro, Toomas ^b   Niilo Rämä, Meri ^a   Gordin, Emilia ^a   Lohi, Hannes ^a,d   Seppälä, Eija H ^a,d   Bragge, Hanna ^a   Snellman, Marjatta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c Referral Animal Neurology Hospital Aisti   (Finland)

^d FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PEDIGREE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PEDIGREE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84884629741     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.243.7.1001     Document Type: Article

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