Projects and contact persons
HORSEGENE brings together researchers and representatives of several universities and equine associations in an effort to identify genetic markers associated with disease and performance traits in horses. Listed below you will find information pertaining to the specific diseases and traits currently being studied around the world. HORSEGENE invites you to explore the types of genetic research currently being done in your area and encourages all interested parties to contact researchers for more information.
Exercise & Performance
| Country | Institution | Researcher | Email | Phenotype request | Blood and/or hair samples needed from: |
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| Sweden | SLU | Dr. Brandon Velie | brandon.velie@slu.se | Poor Racing Performance | Coldblood Trotters with a high number of starts and a low amount of earnings |
| Sweden | SLU | Kim Jäderkvist Fegraeus | kim.jaderkvist@slu.se | Gait information | Four-gaited Icelandic horses from two five-gaited parents (homozygous for the DMRT3 mutation) |
Injury & Disease
| Country | Institution | Researcher | Email | Phenotype request | Blood and/or hair samples needed from: |
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| United Kingdom | Animal Health Trust | Dr Debbie Guest | debbie.guest@aht.org.uk | Catastrophic Fracture | Thoroughbred cases and controls |
| Sweden | SLU | Dr. Brandon Velie | brandon.velie@slu.se | Polydactyly | Cases-Warmbloods, Shetland Ponies, Thoroughbreds |
| United States | UC-Davis | Assistant Professor Carrie Finno | cjfinno@gmail.com | Equine neuroaxonal dystrophy/ degenerative myeloencephalopathy (NAD/EDM) | Cases - All breeds |
| United States | UC-Davis | Assistant Professor Carrie Finno | cjfinno@gmail.com | Immune-mediated myositis | Cases- QHs |
| United States | UC-Davis | Assistant Professor Carrie Finno | cjfinno@gmail.com | Myofibrillar Myopathy | Cases- Arabians and Warmbloods |
| United States | UC-Davis | Assistant Professor Carrie Finno | cjfinno@gmail.com | Occipitoatlantoaxial malformation (OAAM) | Cases- Arabians |
| United States | UC-Davis | Associate Adjunct Professor Rebecca Bellone | rbellone@ucdavis.edu | Eye Cancer | Cases-Haflingers/Belgians/Percherons |
| United States | University of Florida | DVM Laura Patterson Rosa | lpattersonr@ufl.edu | Anhidrosis | Non-sweating (anhidrotic) horses of any age or breed |
| United States | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Jessica Petersen | jessica.petersen@unl.edu | Shivers | Cases - all breeds; Controls - geldings 17H+, over 10 years |