• DOI:10.1111/J.1939-1676.2004.TB02571.X
Corpus ID: 24502889

Inheritance of urinary calculi in the Dalmatian.

@article{Bannasch2004InheritanceOU,
  title={Inheritance of urinary calculi in the Dalmatian.},
  author={D. Bannasch and G. V. Ling and J. Bea and T. Famula},
  journal={Journal of veterinary internal medicine},
  year={2004},
  volume={18 4},
  pages={
          483-7
        }
}

D. Bannasch, G. V. Ling, +1 author T. Famula

Published 2004

Medicine

Journal of veterinary internal medicine

Dalmatians are unique among dogs in that they excrete uric acid in their urine as the end product of purine metabolism rather than allantoin as do other breeds of dogs. [...] Key Method We used a survey to ascertain the urinary calculi status based on clinical signs of adult Dalmatians aged 6 years or older, and we used pedigrees from these same animals to estimate the heritability of the clinical manifestation of urate calculi within the breed to be .87 (.75-.96). The prevalence of the disease was 34% (24.99…Expand Abstract

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