Patent ID: 8206911

Claim:
A method for identifying a dog as genetically normal, as a carrier of, or as affected with or predisposed to progressive rod cone degeneration comprising: a) providing a biological sample obtained from the dog, said biological sample comprising nucleic acids; and b) detecting in the biological sample whether or not there is a change from G to A at position 1298 in SEQ ID NO:1, identifying the dog to be a carrier of progressive rod cone degeneration, affected with or predisposed to progressive rod cone degeneration, or normal, wherein the G to A change in one allele is indicative of a carrier of progressive rod-cone degeneration, the G to A change in both alleles is indicative of a dog affected with or predisposed to progressive rod-cone degeneration, and the absence of the G to A change is indicative of a genetically normal dog.