"Ultimately, withholding such information breeds mistrust and suspicion — both of the United States and of companies that must comply with government legal directives".
"We capture information like breed, activity label, if dog is spayed/neutered, and based on that we have an algorithm that will calculate daily calorie needs and match that to the food type that we send".
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Although often difficult for both physicians and patients alike, I believe that withholding this information can breed unreasonable expectations, propagate medical paternalism and perpetuate further miscommunication between doctors and patients.
At animal level information about breed, sex and age was collected.
Animal information (name, breed, population), sequence data metrics (mapping rate, depth, concordance), and sequence repository identifiers (NCBI BioProject and BioSample IDs) are provided to enable others to access and exploit this sequence information.
Information regarding breed, age, sex, weight and total duration of colic is given in Tables 1 and 2. The horses were referred by field practitioners or smaller equine clinics because of unresolved acute colic of varying aetiology.
Data on milk production and SCC from monthly test days and information on breed, age, and calving number were available from the Danish Cattle Database for at least one year prior to sampling for all sampled herd and for an additional group of 109 herds enrolled in the entire Kongeaa project.
In goats, Carillier et al. [ 5] reported small gains in accuracy with multi-breed GBLUP compared to pedigree-based BLUP, which does not use information between breeds.
Indeed, in dairy cattle breeding, several empirical studies showed that the potential of using information across breeds was limited, e.g. [ 9- 11].
