The gene for day blindness in the dachshund has been found
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
A PhD project by Anne Caroline Wiik has discovered the genetic cause of day blindness or "cone-rod dystrophy` in the wire-haired dachshund. The disease was discovered in two litter mates in 1999 and has since been studied in both clinical and genetic trials in offspring of these.