Automated high-throughput phenotyping with sensors, imaging, and other on-farm technologies
has resulted in a flood of data that are largely under-utilized. Drastic cost reductions in …

Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) refers to a cluster of clinical abnormalities including
insulin resistance, generalized obesity, and/or increased adiposity in specific locations (regional …

Advances in high-throughput molecular biology and electronic health records (EHR), coupled
with increasing computer capabilities have resulted in an increased interest in the use of …

Locomotion in mammals relies on a central pattern-generating circuitry of spinal interneurons
established during development that coordinates limb movement 1 . These networks …

Horses were domesticated from the Eurasian steppes 5,000–6,000 years ago. Since then,
the use of horses for transportation, warfare, and agriculture, as well as selection for desired …

Intense selective pressures applied over short evolutionary time have resulted in homogeneity
within, but substantial variation among, horse breeds. Utilizing this population structure, …

An equine SNP genotyping array was developed and evaluated on a panel of samples
representing 14 domestic horse breeds and 18 evolutionarily related species. More than 54,000 …

Polysaccharide storage myopathy (PSSM) is a novel glycogenosis in horses characterized
by abnormal glycogen accumulation in skeletal muscle and muscle damage with exertion. It …

Recent advances in genomic sequencing technology and computational assembly methods
have allowed scientists to improve reference genome assemblies in terms of contiguity and …

Background To date, genome-scale analyses in the domestic horse have been limited by
suboptimal single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density and uneven genomic coverage of …