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Journal of Heredity 2004:95(3):195-199
© 2004 The American Genetic Association

Inheritance of Guttural Pouch Tympany in the Arabian Horse

I. Blazyczek, H. Hamann, B. Ohnesorge, E. Deegen, and O. Distl

From the Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Buenteweg 17 p, 30559 Hannover, Germany (Blazyczek, Hamann, and Distl), and the Clinic for Horses, School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Bischofsholer Damm 15, 30173 Hannover, Germany (Ohnesorge, and Deegen).

Address correspondence to Ottmar Distl at the address above, or e-mail: ottmar.distl{at}tiho-hannover.de.

The objective of the present study was to analyze the mode of inheritance of guttural pouch tympany (GPT) using pedigrees of Arabian horses. Complex segregation analyses were employed to test for the significance of nongenetic transmission and for monogenic, polygenic, and mixed monogenic-polygenic modes of inheritance. Horses affected by GPT comprised 27 Arabian purebred foals. Of these 27 animals, 22 were patients at the Clinic for Horses, School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, between 1994 and 2001 and 5 Arabian foals were from stud farms. Information on the pedigrees of these patients allowed us to classify the affected foals into four families with a total of 276 animals. The regressive logistic model analysis took into account the nonrandomness of the pedigrees through multiple single ascertainment correction. The complex segregation analysis showed that, among all other models employed, a polygenic and a mixed monogenic-polygenic model best explained the segregation of Arabian foals with GPT. Models including only nongenetic distributions and monogenic inheritance could be significantly rejected. This is the first report in which a genetic component could be shown to be responsible for GPT in horses.


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