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GET INVOLVED
If you or any members of your club/community are interested
in participating in this new and exciting realm of dog behavioral genetics
research, contact us. To
request kits in order to participate in the study, click
here or on the Kits link above.
All personal information contributed to the study is
completely confidential. There is no
cost to participate, save return postage for mailing sample kits back to
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THANK YOU
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this
project. We appreciate your support and interest in the study.
We have a Yahoo! email list so that participants and
interested parties can keep up with and discuss news, events, and specifics
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Hello and Welcome to the Canine Behavioral Genetics Project (UCSF)!
If you have already signed up for a personal user account but have not received a password for your client log-in yet, please email us and we will assign you one.
WELCOME
The Canine Behavioral Genetics Project is based in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Hamilton in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Human Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco. With collaborators Dr. Mark Neff (formerly of UC Davis) and Dr. Hannes Lohi (Univ Helsinki), the goals of this project are:
Our project is currently recruiting participants and collecting DNA samples from both purebred and mixed-breed dogs. Specifically, we are looking for:
Behaviorally affected dogs: Dogs that suffer or appear to suffer from panic, fear, anxiety, compulsive behaviors, and aggression. Examples of such behaviors include (but are not limited to) separation anxiety, noise phobias, fears of people, places, or other dogs, and aggression toward people or other dogs.
Medically/neurologically affected dogs: Dogs that were born able to hear but have shown declines or impairments in hearing acuity (deafness). Dogs that suffer from epilepsy or have a history of seizures.
Family members of affected dogs: Members of a known, accessible family (including siblings, parents, grandparents, etc.) related to one or more affected dogs. Pedigrees, if available, are highly useful to this research, although not necessary for participation.
Non-behaviorally (or medically) affected dogs: Dogs that do not display any anxiety related behaviors, hearing loss and/or seizures are all welcome to participate in this study. These dogs are necessary for a comparative sample, as well as to assess diversity and population structure both within and between breeds.
For information about the design of the study (why we are looking for the dogs we're looking for), click here.
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