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Further Information

Some of the Dog Breeds that carry the Merle gene Include:

Resources

Deaf Dog Education Action Fund
www.deafdogs.org
Owners of Blind Dogs
www.blinddogs.com
(Note that while both of these organizations maintain lists of dogs looking for homes, neither one of them is a rescue and cannot take dogs in.)
Australian Shepherd Health & Genetics Institute, Inc.
www.ashgi.org
Basic Genetics (from Internet articles by Sue Ann Bowling)
bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/BasGen.html
Elementary merle genetics for newcomers (also from Internet articles by Sue Ann Bowling)
bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/Merle.html
Mapping Disease Genes using DNA marker
mendel.berkeley.edu/dog/mapping.html
The Dalmatian Dilemma - White Coat Colour and Deafness
www.steynmere.com/DALM_DEAFNESS.html
Inheritance of tweed, a modification of merle, in Australian shepherd dogs
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...
Dog Coat Color Genetics by Sheila Schmutz
skyway.usask.ca/~schmutz/dogcolors.html