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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  HuH? My younger daughter is a juvenile diabetic, diagnosed at age 6, she's now 21. We have No family history of the disease and our doctors have never said that there was a diabetic gene that would skip generations. I don't think that there would be a simple routine test that would show a gene marker for the disease? I know they were testing human siblings for markers a while back (my oldest daughter participated in that trial) but I sure haven't heard of any findings. I certainly haven't heard of any tests for dogs ... maybe the breeder meant something else and not diabetes??? |
You're right. There is no genetic marker for diabetes, canine or human, so there is no test. The disease doesn't skip generations, either.
I'm completely lost on thread. I thought we were talking about whether or not this website was "a rip off" to quote the OP.
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I have no idea how diabetes got brought into this thread.
