1. BOBTAIL BOXER ARTICLES - Published in Dog World (UK)



• Genetics Can be Fun Part 1        Aug 2, 1996
  
  
• Genetics Can be Fun Part 2       Aug 9, 1996
  
  
• Genetics Can be Fun Part 3       Sept 13 1996
  
  
• Genetics Can be Fun - Update       Aug 28 1998
  
  
• Reflections on Past Progress       June 30 2000
  
  
• Reflections on Past Progress (cont.)       July 7 2000
  
  
• Postscript       May 4 2001
  
  

 

See also .....

• Bobtail Boxers (plus Questions & Answers).
  BoxerUnderground (1998)
  
  
• Bobtail Boxer Update,     Boxer '99, pp 111-114
  
  
• Bobtail Boxers, A Final Update, Boxer 2001, pp 57-63
  
  
• The Genetics of the Bobtail. Corgi Special, Our Dogs (UK) p16, 29 June 2012
  
  

2. PROGRESSIVE AXONOPATHY



• Progressive Axonopathy in the Boxer - Update   Boxer ’82, pp 85-86



3. AORTIC STENOSIS

• Basic Information on Aortic Stenosis in Boxers and Proposed Interim Measures for its  Control                         Boxer ’82, pp 10-16L
  
  
• Progress in Dealing with Aortic Stenosis                               Boxer ’93, pp 19-21
  
  
• Heart News, Problems, Complications, and Conclusions    Boxer ’94, pp 80-82
  
  
• Heart News, What’s New, and Where Next                        Boxer ’95, pp 64-67
  
  
• Boxer Heart Testing: A New Initiative on Grading     Boxer ’96, pp 18-19
  
  
• Boxer Heart Testing: Reassessment of Grading Boxer ’97, pp 46-49
  
  
• Boxer Heart Testing: At long last the tide may be turning   Boxer ’99, pp 105-109
  
  
• Boxer Heart Testing: I think we are winning  Boxer ’97, pp 46-49
  
  
• Aortic Stenosis in Boxers.      BoxerUndergound (1993)
  
  
• Boxer Aortic Stenosis      Presentation to the American Boxer Club, BoxerUnderground 2001
  
  
• Notice:  Research on the genetics of aortic stenosis in Boxers was terminated in 2003
  
  
• Summation of Boxer heart testing (SAS) by auscultation (1990 t0 2013)
  
  
  

4. Boxer Cardiomyopathy/ARVC

• Basic information on Boxer Cardiomyopthy (BCM/ARVC) and recommendations for its control updated with Paul Wotton 2012
  
  
• UK Boxer Cardiomyopathy in Perspective Boxer Showcase, Dog World, July 2008 Basic information on Boxer Cardiomyopthy (BCM) and recommendations for its control updated 2012
  
  
• A pedigree-based genetic appraisal of Boxer ARVC and the role of the Striatin mutation Vet Rec (2015)
  
  
• History of Boxer ARVC in the UK Boxer Ring, May 2014, pp 62-63
 
5. Juvenile Kidney Disease
• Juvenile Kidney Disease in Boxers: a brief summary London & Home Counties BC Newsletter Jan 2012
  
  
• Juvenile Kidney Disease in Boxers: first update          London & Home Counties BC Newsletter Jan 2013
  
  
  
• Kidneys and Heart   (London & Home Counties BC Newsletter Feb 14)
  
  
• Juvenile Kidney Disease in Boxers: London & Home Counties BC Newsletter Oct 2014
  
  
• Summation of the JKD situation: (with Lynn Kincla, J.Peters, Pia Lannermalm,Virginia Zurfleih, and Sheila Cartwright) (Summer 2015) – www.boxerjkd.com:


• The Confusing Picture of Boxer JKD: Boxer Daily, December 2015
  
  JKD reports to Showboxer Forum and Facebook
  
  
• JKD Report 1      (22.01.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 2    (30.01.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 3     (16.02.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 4    (23.04.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 5    (14.06.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 6    (25.06.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 7    (26.07.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 8    (10.10.13)
  
  
• JKD Report 9    (12.12.13)
  
  
• Facebook JKD reports 1 – 14    (30.06.14)
  
  
• Facebook JKD reports 15 – 17    (30.09.14)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 29    (22.09.15)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 32    (22.09.15)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 33    (9.11.15)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 34    (22.11.15)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 35    (07.01.15)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 36    (07.01.15)
  
  
• Facebook JKD reports 37    (30.01.16)
  
  
• Facebook JKD reports 38    (2017)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 40r4    (2017)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 42    (2017)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 43    (2017)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 44r    (2017)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 45    (2017)
  
  
• Facebook JKD report 46    (2017)
  
  
• Facebook JKD reports 60    (2017)
  
  

 

6. GENERAL GENETICS ARTICLES



• White Markings – the cause and inheritance with special reference to the Boxer   Boxerama No. 5:14-19 (1974)
  
  
• Breeding for Success – what the records show     Boxer ’79 pp 60-64
  
  
• A Genetic Who-Dun-It      British Boxer Club Newsletter Winter 1990 pp 14-15
  
  
• Finding the Gene for Brindle  The Boxer Ring, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp 28-32 (2005)
  
  
• On the BBC film “Pedigree Dogs Exposed”     Dog World Aug 2008
  
  
• Inbreeding      Dog World, February 2009
  
  
• White Markings in the Boxer, causes and inheritance – a summary      The Boxer Ring, Spring 2009
  
  



7. CANINE PUBLICATIONS

 

• The Dalmatian Dilemma: White Coat Colour and deafness   Journal Small Anim. Pract.40: 193-200, 1999
  
  
• Canine Homology of the T-box Transcription factor T; failure of the protein to bind to its target leads to a short tail phenotype      Mamm. Genome 12: 212-218, 2001
  
  
• A defensin mutation causes a black coat colour in domestic dogs  Science 318: 1418-23, 2007
  
  
• Cardiomyopathy in Boxer Dogs  Veterinary Times 46: 06-09, 2010 (PDF-3MB)   (This article was published in Veterinary Times on 22nd November and is reproduced here with their permission)
  
  
• A pedigree-based genetic appraisal of Boxer ARVC and the role of the Striatin mutation Veterinary Record 176:492,2015