Home About ASHGI, Inc. Organizational Purpose Board of Directors Contact Us Past Donors How to Donate Volunteering Legal Stuff Genetic Information Breeding Bad Genes, Babies & Bathwater Baking Bread: The Red Hen Approach to Genetic Disease The Biggest Problem Breeder's Notebook: Do the Math By D. Caroline Coile, Ph.D. Breeding for the New Millennium The Downside of Inbreeding: It's Time for a New Approach In the Mode: How Traits Pass in Dogs, Lines and Breeds Nature or Nurture? Genes and Environment Omerta: The Breeders' Code of Silence By Sierra Milton The Ostrich Syndrome Playing COI: Using Inbreeding Coefficients The Price of Popularity: Popular Sires and Population Genetics Removing the Stigma of Genetic Disease By Jerold S. Bell, DVM Rosettes to Ruin: Making & Breaking Dogs in the Show Ring By Patrick Burns Sleeping Dragons: Hereditary Disease and Breeder Ethics Speaking Heresy: A Dispassionate View of Cross-Breeding What Price Glory: What Happens When Winning is Everything Why Incest Isn’t Best Bones & Joints Elbow Dysplasia Hip Check: in the battle against canine hip dysplasia, identification, treatment, research and careful breeding selection are the weapons of choice. By Jerold S. Bell, DVM Cancer Cancer: The Deadly Menace Color Basic Genetics and the Australian Shepherd Part One: Inheritance of Color and Pattern Basic Genetics and the Australian Shepherd Part Two: Multiple Alleles Color Clashes: The Unrecognized Aussie Coat Colors Color Implications in Health By Sheila M. Schmutz and Tom G. Berryere The Trouble with Merle Color: White and Aussies White Fright Deafness Disease Prevalence in Aussies Dirty Dozen Plus a Few: Frequency of Hereditary Disease in Australian Shepherds Epilepsy Canine Epilepsy Canine Idiopathic Epilepsy By Margaret Muns, DVM The Epilepsy Underground By Lynn Fremuth The Road to Hell: Epilepsy and the Australian Shepherd Eyes CEA and I Can You See? Inherited Eye Disease in Aussies You, Your Dog, and Eye: An Examination of Eye Screening Gene Banks & DNA Testing Basic Genetics and the Australian Shepherd Part Three: DNA Fingerprinting of Canines Mythunderstanding DNA Tests Testing Protocol for Inherited Diseases in Australian Shepherds ASCA’s Gene Bank: What is it and what will it do for your dog? Genetics Glossary Health Surveys Results of the 1999 ASCA Breed Health Survey Heart & Blood Immune Disorders in Aussies The Rising Storm: What Breeders Need to Know About the Immune System Science & Your Dog When Worlds Collide: Purebred Dogs and Genetic Research Teeth So Bite Me: A Close Look at Canine Dentition Testing & Screening You, Your Dog, and Eye: An Examination of Eye Screening Index of Aussie Genetics Fact Sheets Blue-Eyed Blacks Cataracts Collie Eye Anomaly (CEA) Canine Hip Dysplasia (CHD) Genetically Clean Lines Generalized Demodectic Mange Dilute Color and Dilution Spots Canine Epilepsy Eyes & CERF Excess White Megaesophagus Patent Ductus Arteriosis (PDA) Pelger-Huet Anomaly (PHA) Persistent Pupilary Membrane (PPM) Phantom Merles Pigment & Deafness Australian Shepherd Genetic Disease Prevalence Bad Bites & Missing Teeth Thyroid Disease What's Wrong with White Aussies? Sable & Yellow Research Projects Recommended Reading Links