Genetic Basis of Equine Performance and Orthopedic Conditions
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Equids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 108
Special Issue Editors
Interests: equine genetics; developmental orthopedic disease; osteoarthritis; gait; performance
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Interests: study of pathological responses in osteoarthritis; elucidation of the role of the gut microbiome in orthopedic conditions; development of cellular and immunomodulatory approaches to treat musculoskeletal disease
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Dear Colleagues,
Horse breeding for performance has always been considered as much art as science. However, the advent of high-throughput genetics and genomics tools, and the continued decrease in costs related to these tools, have brought a surge of interest in harnessing genetics information to select for specific performance traits across disciplines. Orthopedic disease is an important contributor to poor performance in horses, making it another target of interest for ongoing genetics research. High-throughput genotyping and genome-wide association studies are being paired with tissue-specific (or single-cell) transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics to give a more complete picture than ever before of the molecular mechanisms that underlie performance and disease. Concurrently, the development of new data analysis pipelines is allowing for integration of data types, moving the field towards the goal of precision management. The intention of this collection is to highlight the advances in exploring the genetic basis of equine performance and orthopedic conditions, and we invite researchers to contribute their latest findings as original works or review articles.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Annette Marie McCoy
Dr. Lynn M. Pezzanite
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horse
- athletic performance
- musculoskeletal
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- genome-wide association
- precision management
- data integration pipelines
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