Professor University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Disclosure(s):
Ted Kalbfleisch, PhD: No relevant disclosure to display
The horse has formidable resources available to study the genetic basis of health, wellbeing, and disease. In this session, we explore how these resources are currently being used, and how they can be grown to benefit bench to barn research. Equine veterinary research would benefit greatly by tightening the feedback loop between veterinarians and veterinary science researchers. Specifically, well characterized phenotype data collected in electronic health record systems coupled with high quality genetic data will benefit both communities. Increasingly, farmers will benefit from sequencing or genotyping their animals to monitor their genetic make up, inbreeding, and whether they harbor alleles known to underlie known genetic traits. These data taken together afford the research community the opportunity to perform the genome wide association studies on the population sizes required to advance genetic research. These findings can in turn be validated and made available to practitioners to individualize the treatment of their patients and cases.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to engage the research community to study interesting cases.
Upon completion, participants will be able to understand how a tighter feedback loop between researchers, and practicians can benefit veterinary care.
Upon completion, participants will be able to understand how genetic testing can benefit their patients, and cases.
