Professor 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:

• Development of a imputation resource for the domestic horse
• Novel tools for the diagnosis of Mendelian genetic diseases in the horse
• Understanding the pathophysiology of energy dysregulation in Type 1 Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy
• Genetic basis of Equine Metabolic Syndrome
• Identification of genetic polymorphisms in the Standardbred horse underlying recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis, osteochondrosis, exercise-induced cardiac arrhythmias, gait (pace), and performance
• Recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis in the Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse
• Equine transcriptomics
• Metabolic phenotypes of equine adipose tissue depots
• Metabolomics in equine metabolic syndrome
• 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