{"id":289622,"date":"2026-04-02T13:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/2026\/04\/02\/igs-now-available-in-australia-too\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:49:20","slug":"igs-now-available-in-australia-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/2026\/04\/02\/igs-now-available-in-australia-too\/","title":{"rendered":"IGS Now Available in Australia, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"289622\" class=\"elementor elementor-289622 elementor-287317\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b384304 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b384304\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55f4cb2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55f4cb2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Imerslund-Gr\u00e4sbeck Syndrome (IGS) Now Also Found in Australian Shepherds and Miniature American Shepherds<\/h2><div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><p>IGS is an inherited<strong> disorder that affects the absorption of vitamin B12<\/strong>. The resulting deficiency impairs blood formation and can lead to <strong>anemia<\/strong> as well as <strong>neurological deficits<\/strong>. The first symptoms usually appear during puppyhood, between<strong> about 6 and 12 weeks<\/strong> of age. Typical symptoms include <strong>insufficient weight gain and growth retardation, fatigue, loss of appetite, anemia, and general weakness. <\/strong> <\/p><p>Effective immediately, the IGS genetic test is available for <strong>Australian Shepherds<\/strong> and <strong>Miniature American Shepherds<\/strong>, in addition to <strong>Border Collies, Beagles, and <\/strong><strong> Komondors<\/strong>. For these two breeds, testing is conducted for an <strong>autosomal recessive <\/strong>variant in the so-called <em>AMN gene<\/em>.<\/p><p>Early diagnosis allows affected dogs to maintain a good quality of life through lifelong vitamin B12 supplementation. 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The resulting deficiency impairs blood formation and can lead to anemia as well as neurological deficits. The first symptoms usually appear during puppyhood, between about 6 and 12 weeks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":288284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[131,130],"class_list":["post-289622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog","tag-dog","tag-genetic-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289623,"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289622\/revisions\/289623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labogen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}