Neonatal cortical cerebellar abiotrophy (NCCD)

LABOKLIN Service ID: 8457

Cerebellar abiotrophy is a genetic disease that causes programmed cell-death of Purkinje-cells in the cerebellum. This loss of brain tissue leads to dysfunction of balance and motor funktion. Affected dogs exhibit symptoms soon after birth or in very early age. These include tremor, ataxia and spastic paralysis.

Method	FLP (Beagle); sequencing (Magyar Viszla)
Breed list	Beagle, Hungarian Vizsla
Heredity	autosomal recessive
Duration	1 - 2 weeks after arrival of the samples in the lab