Surgery can help improve respiratory and gastrointestinal clinical signs of the disease. Brachycephaly is a breed conformation that consists of short and wide skull proportions. 1 The short and wide ...

Background: Microdeletions at 17q21.31 have recently been shown to cause a novel syndrome. Here we identify the reciprocal 17q21.31 duplication syndrome in 4 patients. Method: Patients with the ...

2 Department of Cytogenetics, Hunter Area Pathology Service, New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia 3 Microarray and Genomics Facility, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer ...

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Cuteness, sadly, comes at a price. Animals – especially dogs – with adorably smooshy faces, button noses, and large endearing eyes, have become increasingly fashionable. However, these flat faces – ...

Brachycephalic breeds of dogs, most of which show signs of the brachycephalic syndrome may have greater parasympathetic stimulation than other breeds, leading to higher values of heart rate ...

Background Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most frequent genetic disorders. NF1 is caused by dominant loss-of-function pathogenic variants (PVs) of the tumour-suppressor gene NF1, which ...

This review provides an updated summary of the state of our knowledge of the genetic contributions to the pathogenesis of congenital heart disease. Since 2007, when the initial American Heart ...

They account for 85% of all cases 9 and include premature fusion of sagittal suture (scaphocephaly), unicoronal (plagiocephaly) or bicoronal (brachycephaly) sutures, metopic suture (trigonocephaly), ...

Lameness in dogs is a common sign that can indicate pain, injury, or disease affecting the limbs. It may develop suddenly (acute) or gradually (chronic) and range from a mild ...