Support-limb laminitis was the type of laminitis 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro (seen here at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center) succumbed to while healing from a severe fracture in a hind limb. The American Association of Equine Practitioners ...
Read More »Review – RNA-Seq and Horse Racing
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) by next-generation technology is a powerful tool which creates new possibilities in whole-transcriptome analysis. In recent years, with the use of the RNA-seq method, several studies expanded transcriptional gene profiles to understand interactions between genotype and phenotype, ...
Read More »HSDB – Thoroughbred Horse Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Expression Database
Genetics is important for breeding and selection of horses but there is a lack of well-established horse-related browsers or databases. In order to better understand horses, more variants and other integrated information are needed. Researchers at Hankyong National University, Korea ...
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