title: A pedigree-based genetic appraisal of Boxer ARVC and the role of the Striatin mutation.
abstract: The objective of this paper was to investigate by pedigree-based genetic means the origins and inheritance of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) in UK Boxers and assess the role of the proposed causal mutation in the gene, Striatin (STRN). All ARVC cases traced back to a small number of imported American dogs deriving from the group of Boxers studied by Harpster (1983) to define the disease, strongly suggesting that the disease is the same in the two countries. Dogs with and without the STRN mutation were found in both ARVC affected and normal Boxers showing that the mutation is not responsible for the disease. Evidence was found that the STRN mutation is, however, genetically linked with the gene responsible on the same chromosome. The linkage implies that the two genes can separate by meiotic recombination such that both ARVC-affected and ARVC-unaffected lines of dogs may carry either the STRN mutation or its wild-type allele. These have been found. Homozygotes for the STRN mutation tended to be severely affected at early ages, suggesting that there is an interaction between the known effects of the STRN mutation on the cardiomyocyte and ARVC.
authors: MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, UK.
authors: B M
authors: BM
authors: Cattanach
authors: University of Liverpool Small Animal Teaching Hospital, Leahurst, Chester High Road, Neston CH64 7TE, UK.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Dukes-McEwan
authors: University of Glasgow School of Veterinary Medicine, Bearsden Road, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.
authors: P R
authors: PR
authors: Wotton
authors: University of Liverpool Small Animal Teaching Hospital, Leahurst, Chester High Road, Neston CH64 7TE, UK HS Cardiology Ltd, Barnfield Farm, Tunstall, Carnforth LA6 2RU, UK.
authors: H M
authors: HM
authors: Stephenson
authors: The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada.
authors: R M
authors: RM
authors: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019571:Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia / Q000235:genetics / Q000662:veterinary*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D009154:Mutation; D010375:Pedigree; D013045:Species Specificity; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins
keywords: Cardiomyopathy; Dogs; Genetics