Re: [pyrnet] GPCA -- and dwarfs

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/11/00 8:44:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
JGentzel@aol.com writes:

<< the  condition 
 Chondrodystrophy, is this not a term for Dwarfism we see in Pyrs?  >>

I just answered my own question via a search?

<<Chondrodystrophy and the Dog Genome Project 

By Claudia Anderson

Chondrodystrophy, also known as Chondrodysplasia and "the Funnies," is a kind 
of dwarfism caused by abnormal growth in the leg bones and vertebrae of dogs. 
>>

My point is that Dr. Padgett classifies Chondrodysplasia or Chondrodystrophy 
as a 

" Disorders that disfigure, maim or otherwise render an animal 
nonfunctional (i.e. cataracts, retinal dysplasia and
     detachment, chondrodystrophy). "

The presence of animals who escape this "disfigure or maim" effects that 
"render an animal nonfunctional", does not change the fact that it occurs and 
is part and parcel of this genetic problem.

Joe