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Foal Immunodeficiency Syndrome (FIS)

35,00 €

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→ Nonfunctional immune system causes anemia and early death in foals.

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Affected breeds: Fell & Dales Ponies
Test #: H112
Description: Foal Immunodeficiency Syndrome Genetic Testing

This test detects a single basepair change in exon 1 in the SLC5A3 gene.
Samples: Hair, Blood
Time: 10 – 14 days

General Information

  • Antibodies that are usually produced after birth cannot be developed by the impaired immune system.
  • At the age of 3 – 6 weeks, when the foal stopps suckling, maternal antibodies decrease in the foal’s body and infections occur.
  • Anemia usually causes early death or euthanasia of the affected foal.
  • Estimated 10% of Fell ponies and 1% of Dales ponies are affected by FIS (data from UK breed societies).
  • FIS is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease, meaning that horses with only one copy of the genetic variant (N/fis) are clinically normal carriers while horses with two copies of the genetic variant (fis/fis) are affected.

Symptoms

  • Diarrhea
  • Cough
  • Problems suckling
  • Infections
  • Anemia

Inheritance and Genotypes

→ FIS is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease, meaning that horses with only one copy of the genetic variant (N/fis) are clinically normal carriers while horses with two copies of the genetic variant (fis/fis) are affected.

Genotype: The horse is: Effects:
N/N normal. The horse does not have any copies of the genetic variant causative for FIS and therefore cannot pass it on to any offspring.
N/fis a carrier. The horse is clinically healthy. It has one copy of the genetic variant causitive for FIS, which will be passed on to its offspring with a probability of 50%.
fis/fis affected. The pony is affected and will not live long enough to reproduce.

Recommendations

  • Carriers may be bred to normal animals (N/fis x N/N) without any risk of producing affected offspring. The offspring should also be tested before breeding to determine if they are carriers or normal.
  • Breeding two carriers (N/fis x N/fis) is not recommended due to the possibility of 25% of the offspring being affected.

References

Fox-Clipsham, LY., Carter, SD., Goodhead, I., Hall, N., Knottenbelt, DC., May, PD., Ollier, WE., Swinburne, JE.: Identification of a mutation associated with fatal foal immunodeficiency syndrome in the fell and dales pony. PLoS Genet 7:e1002133, 2011. Pubmed reference: 21750681. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002133.

Further information is available at Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals.

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