Professor and Associate Dean for Research Molly McCue

The equine genetics and genomics laboratory works on a variety of genome tools and disease-focused genomics projects in horses and dogs, and uses both species as a biomedical model. The group's current projects are:

• Genetic basis of Equine Metabolic Syndrome
• Identification of genetic polymorphisms in the Standardbred horse underlying osteochondrosis, gait (pace), performance, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death; and exertional rhabdomyolysis
• Recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis in the Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse
• Equine transcriptomics
• Novel tools for the diagnosis of Mendelian genetic diseases in the horse
• Development of an equine variant catalogue
• Development of further resources to accelerate understanding of the link between genotype and phenotype
• Discovering the genetic contribution (heritability) and the specific genes and alleles contributing to equine pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction
• Discovering the genetic causes of diseases in Doberman dogs
• Developing a genetic prediction assay for autism assistance dogs informed by family needs