Longtime member, not active. Had a basenji with the same diagnosis back in 2004. He took a tremendous amount of bicarb each day, his Fanconi was being well managed, but he started having seizures at night. Our vet gave us something to stop the seizure that we'd administer rectally. We kept track of the number of seizures and they started becoming more frequent, to about twice a week, if I recall. The final seizure he had he went temporarily blind and howled and howled and we knew that was it was time. I just sat on the floor with him and cried. A couple months later we looked at photos we had taken of him right before and he looked very, very tired. Very much the hardest thing we had ever done was to let him go across the Bridge, but after looking at those photos, we had done the right thing. Our vet had told us that it was possible he would have a seizure and not come out of it, and we certainly didn't want that.
Fanconi Syndrome mutation found ???
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I just saw on FB that Dr Johnson has found the mutation for Fanconi and a direct (mutation based) test is available through OFA :)…
Can anyone tell if this is actaully true ??? If so what a wonderful day it is in the eradication of this devastating disease ;)...
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BCOA members received an e-mail tonight telling us that Dr. Johnson HAS located the gene and that a direct test will be available from OFA!!
YIPPEE!!!!!
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BCOA members received an e-mail tonight telling us that Dr. Johnson HAS located the gene and that a direct test will be available from OFA!!
YIPPEE!!!!!
The direct test is already available. From what I understand if you order the test even though the OFA link still says "linkage" test, it will be done with the new test for the direct gene.
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Wonderful news
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Fantastic news:)
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That's good to hear. Has someone a direct link to the article about this?
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That's good to hear. Has someone a direct link to the article about this?
Here:
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Fantastic news !