just to let anyone who is waiting for a response from the researchers for this i have eventually recieved a swab kit and have now sent zaks swabs off to them, might be worth a mention that they also want dna samples from unaffected dogs so please all you with dogs in affected with epilepsy send an e.mail to the address in the first post and help try identify and eliminate this condition from the labrador breed
I wasn't sure if this research was still active so emailed the contact and just received the following reply.... In case anyone was interested....
"Thank you for the interest in canine genetic research here at the AHT, and your offer of sample contributions.
We are still at the collection stage, as the message you seen must have gone out before our funding came through.
You are more than welcome to submit samples from both the affected and unaffected Labrador's owned by yourself.
The result's will be some time in coming I believe, as this is a Europe wide collaborative project involving many breeds and several institutes. Usually once a project has reached it's completion we inform the owner's whose samples have been used of the results if there are any. If we don't happen to find a direct genetic cause after the period of the study is finished, then we inform the breed clubs if need be of where thing's now stand, and hopefully continue the work in future.
Results from research are usually kept confidential and anonymous, and any publications would do so, unless permissions have been given at the outset.
At the moment I can't tell you if or where the finding's will be reported, as I don't know."
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