Re: [pyrnet] Dwarfism

["Karen Reiter" <kreiter@servtech.com>]

woodskk@eburg.com writes:
<< Tami Green is one of the people that is working on this.  A written
report was given out at the national speciality last spring.  If anyone has
question they should contact Tami.>>

JGentzel@aol.com writes:
<< <snip> A lot of people have questions and some of them are not allowed to
be members of the GPCA, so they do not feel they have access or privilege to
this information via the GPCA.  Maybe someone knows for everyone's knowledge
if the DNA samples have been drawn and submitted for analysis.  If not, when
is it expected to be completed?>>

The dwarfism project as a whole had its inception in 1998 when Mary Beth
Vaudrin contacted Mark Neff to help us with this.  So, the project is barely
2.5 years in progress.  Marker projects can take *years* to complete.  They
are quite often not simple science.  And sometimes they result in nothing.
Just because a marker project commences is *no* guarantee that it will be
successful.  The collection of samples is ongoing but the committee also
needs people willing to participate.  The actual attempt at marker
identification will not begin until Mark has 15 different families (I think
that's the number).  Anyone who is interested or wants to participate should
contact Tami Green (greenpyrs@aol.com).  You do not have to be a GPCA member
to participate...

Hope that this helps.   :-)

Karen Reiter
kreiter@servtech.com
Fairport, NY  USA




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