Byron Rogers
The Biomechanics Gene
A new paper out on Nature this week is very interesting and has some wide implications for the harness horse and also humans. Lead by a...
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Byron Rogers
- Jul 24, 2012
- 6 min
New MtDNA study reveals closer genetic and pedigree links
A decade ago Emmeline Hill, Dr Patrick Cunningham and others from the Trinity College in Dublin published a seminal paper on...
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Byron Rogers
- Jul 17, 2012
- 10 min
Clenbuterol and drug regulation in American racing
The drug Clenbuterol is a β2 agonist with some structural and pharmacological similarities to epinephrine (adrenaline). Therapeutically,...
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Byron Rogers
- Jun 29, 2012
- 2 min
Genetic technologies in showjumping
There were a couple of interesting articles in the show jumping arena (no pun intended) that caught my eye in relevance to performance in...
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Byron Rogers
- Jun 27, 2012
- 1 min
Risk Factors in training young racehorses
Dr CW Rogers and his team at Massey University in New Zealand have published another interesting paper on the risk factors in training a...
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Byron Rogers
- May 24, 2012
- 1 min
A couple of interesting papers
Three interesting papers have come across my desk that I thought were worth commenting on: The first is a genome wide study on height and...
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Byron Rogers
- May 9, 2012
- 1 min
Scientific American examines the state of play in Thoroughbred Genomics
Jenni Laidman examines the current state of play in Scientific American. The four page article is a very interesting take on who the...
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Byron Rogers
- May 1, 2012
- 2 min
Genomic Estimated Breeding Values
In our opinion there are two papers on what is wrong with thoroughbred breeding in terms of breed improvement that are really "must...
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Byron Rogers
- Apr 4, 2012
- 2 min
How Much Mitochondria
We have previously discussed how there are variations within Mitochondrial DNA that can indicate athletic performance but that if the...
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Byron Rogers
- Mar 20, 2012
- 3 min
Natural Blood Doping
Circulatory capacity has been shown to be positively related to athletic performance in the thoroughbred and the equine heart and spleen...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 14, 2012
- 3 min
The 2YO Death Spiral
A death spiral is potentially awaiting us. Internationally, there has been a decline in the annual thoroughbred crop with thoroughbred...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 13, 2012
- 3 min
Mitochondria and Elite Performance
A paper on humans was released last week that outlined some variations in the control region of mitochondrial DNA associated with elite...
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Byron Rogers
- Feb 1, 2012
- 7 min
Speed is not Class
A lot has been written in the last week in regards to the concept of the ‘speed gene’ and exactly how and when this variant (change or...
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Byron Rogers
- Jan 30, 2012
- 3 min
The Mitochondrial Eve
The concept of a 'mitochondrial eve' is a concept that has been around in human terms for some time. The idea is that we as humans all...
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Byron Rogers
- Jan 26, 2012
- 1 min
Heaves - narrowing the focus
Previously we had posted how a group of researchers had started to work down towards identifying the exact changes in genetic code...
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Byron Rogers
- Jan 16, 2012
- 2 min
If only we would do this in the Thoroughbred industry.
Often when we see what is going on in terms of genetics in other fields we utter the words "if only..." as in "if only we would do this...
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Byron Rogers
- Jan 8, 2012
- 3 min
Heritability Estimates in Japanese Thoroughbreds
The thoroughbred racehorse has been repeatedly bred to produce horses of the highest quality. While we believe that every year there is...
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Byron Rogers
- Jan 8, 2012
- 1 min
Understanding Heaves
Like a lot of diseases that impact on performance, the genetic basis of their occurrence is starting to be unraveled by geneticists and...
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 29, 2011
- 3 min
Super Mice
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute put out a release today about the protein PPARβ/δ and its role in athletic performance. Here...
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Byron Rogers
- Nov 12, 2011
- 1 min
Genetic Quality of Service Fees
With the Northern Hemisphere breeding season is fast approaching, I thought it would be timely to post a study on the relationship...
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