Re: [pyrnet] Consider breeding carriers (a proposal)

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/21/00 3:58:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lmweisser@olywa.net writes:

<< I suppose that "proof" would rest on breeding two dwarfs and seeing if we
 get an all dwarf litter and then that result would have to be repeatable.
 Statistics being what they are. >>

This sounds dumb, but I am not so sure.  One of the things that has bugged me 
about this problem is the diversity of mutations that occur as far a degrees 
of involvement and the whether there is deformity or degrees of deformity.  
Also the more common problems that appear to "sometimes" accompany the 
disorder.  Also some of the less obvious dwarfs are just said to not be 
dwarfs even though it is probable that they are.

Could a simple recessive problem 'sometimes' be accompanied by a poly genetic 
problem that would account for such observations?

Joe