Diseases

The following are the anatomical systems and diseases that the OFA is presently tracking and reporting. Click on the Info Icon to learn more.

Some health evaluations are performed during physical examinations by your family veterinarian, a board-certified specialist, or submitted by radiograph to OFA for evaluation by our nationwide team of veterinary radiologists. Blood and tissue samples are submitted to various testing laboratories. As more genetic tests are validated for specific diseases in breeds, we accept those testing results also.

Please read more below.

Musculoskeletal

Radiological
- HIPS
- ELBOW
- SHOULDER
- SPINE
- LEGG-CALVE-PERTHES
Physical Exam
- DENTITION
- PATELLA
DNA Tested
- CENTRONUCLEAR MYOPATHY
- CHONDRODYSPLASIA (CDPA)
- CHONDRODYSTROPHY (CDDY)
- CLEFT LIP/PALATE SYNDACTYLY
- CLEFT PALATE
- CRANIOMANDIBULAR OSTEOPATHY
- EPISODIC FALLING
- EXERCISE INDUCED COLLAPSE
- FAMILIAL ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA
- MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
- MYOTONIA CONGENITA
- OSTEOCHONDRODYSPLASIA
- PAROXYSMAL DYSKINESIA
- PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE DEFICIENCY
- SKELETAL DYSPLASIA 2
- VAN DEN ENDE-GUPTA SYNDROME
- X-LINKED MYOTUBULAR MYOPATHY

Auditory

Physical Exam
- BAER HEARING TEST

Cardiovascular

Physical Exam
- CARDIAC EXAM
- ADVANCED CARDIAC EXAM
DNA Tested
- ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY
- DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
- FACTOR VII DEFICIENCY
- FACTOR XI DEFICIENCY
- GLANZMANN’S THROMBASTHENIA
- GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY
- HEMOPHILIA
- INHERITED VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA
- LEUKOCYTE ADHESION DEFICIENCY
- MACROTHROMBOCYTOPENIA
- PYRUVATE KINASE DEFICIENCY
- RECEPTOR PLATELET DISORDER
- THROMBOPATHIA
- VON WILLEBRANDS

Digestive

DNA Tested
- PERIANAL FISTULA

Glandular

Laboratory Analysis
- THYROID
- SERUM BILE ACID
- COPPER TOXICOSIS
DNA Tested
- CONGENITAL HYPOTHROIDISM W/ GOITER
- COPPER TOXICOSIS
- PITUITARY DWARFISM
- PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM

Immune

DNA Tested
- CANINE CYCLIC NEUTROPENIA
- CANINE LEUKOCYTE ADHESION DEFICENCY
- HISTIOCYTIC SARCOMA
- JUVENILE ADDISON’S DISEASE
- MYCOBACTERIUM AVIAN COMPLEX
- SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY
- TRAPPED NEUTROPHIL SYNDROME

Integumentary

Laboratory Analysis
- SEBACEOUS ADENITIS
DNA Tested
- AGOUTI
- BROWN (TYRP 1)
- D LOCUS
- DERMATOMYOSITIS
- DILUTION D2
- DOMINANT BLACK
- DTR BUFF
- ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA
- GRAY COLLIE SYNDROME
- HARLEQUIN
- HEREDITARY FOOTPAD HYPERKERATOSIS
- HEREDITARY NASAL PARAKERATOSIS
- ICHTHYOSIS
- KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA AND ICHTHYOSIFORM DERMATOSIS
- LETHAL ACRODERMATITIS
- LUPOID DERMATOSIS
- MCR1 (ELOCUS)
- MERLE
- MUSLADIN-LUEKE SYNDROME
- PIEBALD/WHITE SPOTTING

Metabolic

DNA Tested
- COBALAMIN MALABSORPTION
- FUCOSIDOSIS
- GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE
- GANGLIOSIDOSIS
- IMERSLUND-GRASBECK SYNDROME
- INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHY (MYOSITIS)
- L 2 HYDROXYGLUTARIC ACIDUREA
- MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS
- PRIMARY HYPEROXALURIA
- PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE PHOSPHATASE DEFICIENCY

Nervous

DNA Tested
- ACRAL MUTILATION SYNDROME
- ADULT ONSET NEUROPATHY
- BENIGN FAMILIAL JUVENILE EPILEPSY
- CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION
- CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS
- CONGENITAL MYASTHENIC SYNDROME
- DANDY WALKER-LIKE MALFORMATION SYNDROME
- DEGENERATIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY
- DEGENERATIVE MYELOPATHY
- DOBERMAN VESTIBULAR OSTEOPATHY
- HEREDITARY NECROTIZING MYELOPATHY
- HYPOMYELINATION
- INHERITED MYOPATHY
- JUVENILE LARYNGEAL PARALYSIS & POLYNEUROPATHY (LPP)
- JUVENILE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY
- LAFORA EPILEPSY
- LAGOTTO STORAGE DISEASE
- LATE ONSET ATAXIA
- LEUKOENCEPHALOMYELOPATHY
- LIPOFUSCINOSIS
- NARCOLEPSY
- NECROTIZING MENINGOENCEPHALITIS
- NEONATAL CEREBELLAR ATAXIA
- NEONATAL CEREBELLAR CORTICAL DEGENERATION
- NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY
- NEUROAXONAL DYSTROPHY
- NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS
- NEURONAL DEGENERATION
- POLYNEUROPATHY
- SPINAL DYSRAPHISM
- SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA
- SPONGIFORM LEUKOENCEPHALOMYELOPATHY
- SPONGY DEGENERATION WITH CEREBELLAR ATAXIA
- WOLFHOUND STARTLE DISEASE

Respiratory

Radiological
- TRACHEAL HYPOPLASIA
DNA Tested
- LARYNGEAL PARALYSIS
- PRIMARY CILIARY DYSKINESIA
- SENSORY NEUROPATHY

Urogenital

Laboratory Analysis
- KIDNEY
DNA Tested
- CALCIUM OXALATE BLADDER STONES
- CYSTINURIA
- FAMILIAL NEPHROPATHY
- FANCONI SYNDROME
- HEREDITARY NEPHRITIS
- HYPERURICOSURIA
- PERSISTENT MUELLERIAN DUCT SYNDROME
- POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE
- PROTEIN LOSING NEPHROPATHY
- XANTHINURIA

Visual

Physical Exam
- EYES
DNA Tested
- ACHROMATOPSIA DAY BLINDNESS
- ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY
- CANINE MULTIFOCAL RETINOPATHY
- CATARACTS
- COLLIE EYE ANOMALY
- CONE DEGENERATION
- CONE ROD DYSTROPHY
- CONGENITAL EYE DISEASE
- DAY BLINDNESS/RETINAL DEGENERATION
- DRY EYE CURLY COAT SYNDROME
- JUVENILE DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
- MACULAR CORNEAL DYSTROPHY
- MICROPHTHALMIA SYNDROME
- PRIMARY CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA
- PRIMARY OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA
- PRIMARY LENS LUXATION
- PROGRESSIVE RETINAL ATROPHY
- RETINAL DYSPLASIA /OSD
- STATIONARY NIGHT BLINDNESS