A long-term follow up study of a birth cohort of boxer dogs in The Netherlands : genetic and environmental risk factors for diseases

This thesis describes the long-term follow up of a birth cohort of boxer dogs to study disease incidence, mortality, as well as genetic and environmental risk factors in a purebred dog population in The Netherlands. During the last decades, both the number of genetic disorders and the disease rate of these disorders seemed to increase. Therefore, special attention was given to presumed genetic disorders. Heritability in this thesis was estimated using a proportional hazard model based on the Weibull distribution as implemented in the Survival Kit software. Parametric survival models were devel... Mehr ...