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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama  Absolutely false. You don't breed out things like LP, liver shunt etc by mixing breeds. They are bred out by careful tracking of lineage to determine what genes they are associated with. NOT by random breeding of mutts. |
When they are able to actually tag the specific DNA and chromosomes that are responsible for these diseases, and they are ever soooo close to doing this successfully, these diseases will be so much easier for those that study pedigrees and lineage, to avoid breeding/combining pairs that will produce these diseases, and we can completely irradicate them. And just FYI: It is devoted, dedicated breeders/show breeders that are contributing names and DNA and blood to research, so that genotyping and IDing the suspect chromosomes/DNA that is getting us closer to the answers we are desperately looking to find......it is NOT the people that are breeding mutts that are devoted to irradicating diseases from the purebred breeds. They have their OWN agendas. As for outcrossing...you outcross to different blood within the breed, from a different line, NOT by mixing a different breed into the mix!