THYROID SAMPLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- The veterinarian or owner must obtain the "Application for Thyroid Database.
- The veterinarian and owner must complete their respective portions of the form.
- A check for $15.00 payable to the OFA and the completed OFA form must accompany the specimen.
- The veterinarian should request the "OFA Thyroid Panel."
- Two milliliters (2mL) of serum are needed for testing. The serum sample must be from freshly collected blood. Use a plain "red-top" tube for blood collection. Do not use a serum separator tube with clot additives or any other type of plasma collection tube. After collection, place the blood sample in the refrigerator for 60 to 90 minutes to allow clotting. Centrifuge, collect the serum, and transfer to a plain plastic or glass tube suitable for shipping. Clearly label the sample with the owner's name, animal's identification, date of blood collections, and "OFA Thyroid Panel." If the specimen is to be stored for more than 12 hours prior to shipping, frozen storage is recommended.
- Ship to the chosen lab address via an overnight courier service. It is recommended that all specimens be packaged properly and shipped so they are received either chilled or frozen. Serum samples arriving unchilled or at room temperature within 48 hours of the collection date will be accepted. However, samples arriving after this time must be received either chilled or frozen in order to be accepted for registry testing. Contact the laboratory if you have any questions or further instructions are needed.
- Please do not submit whole blood, clotted blood, or plasma.
- Severely lipemic or hemolyzed specimens are also unacceptable.
- Female dogs should not be tested during an estrus cycle.
- The date of last routine vaccination should be noted on the OFA application.
- Test results will be mailed or faxed only to the submitting veterinarian and the OFA. Results will not be available from the laboratory by telephone. The OFA will send a report to the owner.
OFA breed statistics
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http://www.offa.org/stats.html
elbow dysplasia statistics
Patellar Luxation statistics
Cardiac statistics
Thyroid statistics
Search for Statistics by BreedSearching by breed will result in a summary of all statistical data on that breed for all OFA disease databases.
AATU TAMASKAN AFFENPINSCHER AFGHAN HOUND AIREDALE TERRIER AKBASH DOG AKITA ALANO ALAPAHA BLUE-BLOOD BULLDOG ALASKAN KLEE KAI ALASKAN MALAMUTE ALASKAN NOBLE COMPANION DOG AMERICAN BANDOGGE MASTIFF AMERICAN BLUE LACY AMERICAN BULLDOG AMERICAN CANADIAN HERDER AMERICAN COCKAPOO AMERICAN ESKIMO DOG AMERICAN FOXHOUND AMERICAN HAIRLESS TERRIER AMERICAN HUSKY AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER AMERICAN SHORTHAIR CAT AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER AMERICAN WATER SPANIEL AMERICAN WOLFDOG ANATOLIAN SHEPHERD APPENZELL MOUNTAIN DOG ARGENTINE DOGO AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG AUSTRALIAN KELPIE AUSTRALIAN KOOLIE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD AUSTRALIAN STUMPY TAIL CATTLE DOG AUSTRALIAN TERRIER AZAWAKH BARBET BASENJI BASSET HOUND BAVARIAN MOUNTAIN SCENT HOUND BEAGLE BEARDED COLLIE BEAUCERON BEDLINGTON TERRIER BELGIAN LAEKENOIS BELGIAN MALINOIS BELGIAN SHEEPDOG BELGIAN TERVUREN BENGEL CAT BERGAMASCO BERGER PICARD BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG BICHON FRISE BIEWER BLACK AND TAN COONHOUND BLACK MOUTH CUR BLACK RUSSIAN TERRIER BLOODHOUND BLUE LACY BLUE MOUNTAIN SHEPHERD BLUE PICARDY SPANIEL BLUETICK COONHOUND BOERBOEL BOLOGNESE BORDER COLLIE BORDER TERRIER BORZOI BOSTON TERRIER BOUVIER DES FLANDRES BOXER BOYKIN SPANIEL BRACCO ITALIANO BRAQUE D'AUVERGNE BRAQUE DU BOURBONNAIS BRAQUE FRANCAIS BRAQUE FRANCAIS PYRENEES BRIARD BRITISH SHORTHAIR CAT BRITTANY BRUSSELS GRIFFON BULL TERRIER BULLDOG BULLMASTIFF CAIRN TERRIER CANAAN CANADIAN ESKIMO DOG CANE CORSO CARDIGAN WELSH CORGI CATALAN SHEEPDOG CAUCASIAN OVCHARKA CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL CENTRAL ASIAN SHEPHERD CESKY FOUSECK CESKY TERRIER CHART POLSKI CHESAPEAKE BAY RETRIEVER CHIHUAHUA CHINESE CRESTED CHINESE FOO DOG CHINESE SHAR-PEI CHINOOK CHINOOK HYBRID CHOW CHOW CIRNECO DELL ETNA CLUMBER SPANIEL COCKAPOO COCKER SPANIEL COLLIE COTON DE TULEAR CURLY-COATED RETRIEVER CZECHOSLOVAKIAN WOLFDOG DACHSHUND DALMATIAN DANDIE DINMONT TERRIER DANISH SWEDISH FARMDOG DEUTSCH-DRAHTHAAR DOBERMAN PINSCHER DOGUE DE BORDEAUX DOMESTIC CAT DRAHTHAAR DRENTSCH PARTRIDGE DOG DREVER DUTCH SHEPHERD ENGLISH COCKER SPANIEL ENGLISH COONHOUND ENGLISH FOXHOUND ENGLISH JACK RUSSELL TERRIER ENGLISH SETTER ENGLISH SHEPHERD ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL ENGLISH TOY SPANIEL ENTLEBUCHER EPAGNEUL BRETON ESTRELA MOUNTAIN DOG EURASIER FIELD SPANIEL FILA BRASILEIRO FINNISH LAPPHUND FINNISH SPITZ FLAT-COATED RETRIEVER FRENCH BULLDOG FRENCH POINTER FRENCH SPANIEL FRIESE STABIJHOUN GERMAN LONGHAIRED POINTER GERMAN PINSCHER GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER GERMAN SPANIEL GERMAN SPITZ GERMAN WIREHAIRED POINTER GIANT SCHNAUZER GLEN OF IMAAL TERRIER GOLDEN RETRIEVER GORDON SETTER GRAND BASSET GRIFFON VENDEEN GRAND BLEU DE GASCOGNE GREAT DANE GREAT PYRENEES GREATER SWISS MOUNTAIN DOG GREYHOUND HANGIN TREE COWDOG HARRIER HAVANA SILK DOG HAVANESE HIMALAYAN-PERSIAN HOVAWART HYBRID IBIZAN HOUND ICELANDIC SHEEPDOG IRISH RED & WHITE SETTER IRISH SETTER IRISH TERRIER IRISH WATER SPANIEL IRISH WOLFHOUND ITALIAN GREYHOUND JACK RUSSELL TERRIER JAPANESE CHIN JAPANESE SPITZ KAI-KEN KANGAL DOG KARELIAN BEAR DOG KEESHOND KERRY BLUE TERRIER KING SHEPHERD KOMONDOR KOOIKERHONDJE KROMFOHRLANDER KUVASZ KYI-LEO LABRADOODLE LABRADOR RETRIEVER LAGOTTO ROMAGNOLO LAKELAND TERRIER LANDSEER LARGE MUNSTERLANDER LEONBERGER LHASA APSO LITTLE LION DOG LOUBERAL LOUISIANA CATAHOULA LEOPARD LOWCHEN LUPINE DOG MAGYAR AGAR MAINE COON CAT MALTESE MANCHESTER TERRIER MAREMMA MASTIFF MC NAB MI-KI MINIATURE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD MINIATURE BULL TERRIER MINIATURE PINSCHER MINIATURE SCHNAUZER MINIATURE SHEEPDOG MOUNTAIN CUR MUDI NATIVE AM. INDIAN DOG NEAPOLITAN MASTIFF NEW ZEALAND HUNTAWAY NEWFOUNDLAND NORFOLK TERRIER NORRBOTTENSPETS NORTH AMERICAN SHEPHERD NORTHERN TIMBER DOG NORWEGIAN BUHUND NORWEGIAN ELKHOUND NORWEGIAN LUNDEHUND NORWICH TERRIER NOVA SCOTIA DUCKTOLLING RET. OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG OLDE ENGLISH BULLDOGGE OLDE VICTORIAN BULLDOGGE OTTERHOUND PAPILLON PARSON RUSSELL TERRIER PATTERDALE TERRIER PEKINGESE PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI PERRO DE PRESA CANARIO PERSIAN CAT PERUVIAN INCA ORCHID PETIT BASSET GRIFFONS VENDEEN PHARAOH HOUND POINTER POLISH LOWLAND SHEEPDOG POLISH TATRA SHEEPDOG POMERANIAN POODLE PORTUGUESE PODENGO PEQUENO PORTUGUESE POINTER PORTUGUESE WATER DOG PUDELPOINTER PUG PULI PUMI PYRENEAN MASTIFF PYRENEAN SHEPHERD RAGAMUFFIN RAGDOLL RAT TERRIER REDBONE COONHOUND RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK ROTTWEILER RUSSELL TERRIER RUSSIAN EUROPEAN LIAKA RUSSIAN TOY RUSSIAN TSVETNAYA BOLONKA SALUKI SAMOYED SARPLANINAC SCHAPENDOES SCHIPPERKE SCOTTISH DEERHOUND SCOTTISH TERRIER SEALYHAM TERRIER SHETLAND SHEEPDOG SHIBA INU SHIH TZU SHIKOKU SHILOH SHEPHERD SIAMESE CAT SIBERIAN HUSKY SILKEN WINDHOUND SILKY TERRIER SKYE TERRIER SLOVAK TCHOUVATCH SLOVENSKY CUVAC SMALL MUNSTERLANDER SMOOTH FOX TERRIER SOFT COATED WHEATEN TERRIER SOMALI SPANISH MASTIFF SPANISH WATER DOG SPHYNX SPINONE ITALIANO ST. BERNARD STABYHOUN STAFFORDSHIRE BULL TERRIER STANDARD SCHNAUZER SUSSEX SPANIEL SWEDISH LAPPHUND SWEDISH VALLHUND TAMASKAN THAI BANGKAEW THAI RIDGEBACK TIBETAN KYIAPSO TIBETAN MASTIFF TIBETAN SPANIEL TIBETAN TERRIER TOSA TOY AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD TOY FOX TERRIER TREEING TENNESSEE BRINDLE TREEING WALKER TUNDRA SHEPHERD TURKISH ANGORA CAT VIZSLA VOLPINO ITALIANO VOSTOZNO-SIBIRSKAJA LAJKA WACHTELHUND WALKER HOUND WEIMARANER WELSH SHEEPDOG WELSH SPRINGER SPANIEL WELSH TERRIER WEST HIGHLAND WHITE TERRIER WHIPPET WHITE SHEPHERD WIRE FOX TERRIER WIREHAIRED POINTING GRIFFON WIREHAIRED VIZSLA WOLF WOLF HYBRID XOLOITZCUINTLI YORKSHIRE TERRIER YUGOSLAVIAN HERDER
http://www.offa.org/stats.html
elbow dysplasia statistics
Patellar Luxation statistics
Cardiac statistics
Thyroid statistics
Search for Statistics by BreedSearching by breed will result in a summary of all statistical data on that breed for all OFA disease databases.
AATU TAMASKAN AFFENPINSCHER AFGHAN HOUND AIREDALE TERRIER AKBASH DOG AKITA ALANO ALAPAHA BLUE-BLOOD BULLDOG ALASKAN KLEE KAI ALASKAN MALAMUTE ALASKAN NOBLE COMPANION DOG AMERICAN BANDOGGE MASTIFF AMERICAN BLUE LACY AMERICAN BULLDOG AMERICAN CANADIAN HERDER AMERICAN COCKAPOO AMERICAN ESKIMO DOG AMERICAN FOXHOUND AMERICAN HAIRLESS TERRIER AMERICAN HUSKY AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER AMERICAN SHORTHAIR CAT AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER AMERICAN WATER SPANIEL AMERICAN WOLFDOG ANATOLIAN SHEPHERD APPENZELL MOUNTAIN DOG ARGENTINE DOGO AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG AUSTRALIAN KELPIE AUSTRALIAN KOOLIE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD AUSTRALIAN STUMPY TAIL CATTLE DOG AUSTRALIAN TERRIER AZAWAKH BARBET BASENJI BASSET HOUND BAVARIAN MOUNTAIN SCENT HOUND BEAGLE BEARDED COLLIE BEAUCERON BEDLINGTON TERRIER BELGIAN LAEKENOIS BELGIAN MALINOIS BELGIAN SHEEPDOG BELGIAN TERVUREN BENGEL CAT BERGAMASCO BERGER PICARD BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG BICHON FRISE BIEWER BLACK AND TAN COONHOUND BLACK MOUTH CUR BLACK RUSSIAN TERRIER BLOODHOUND BLUE LACY BLUE MOUNTAIN SHEPHERD BLUE PICARDY SPANIEL BLUETICK COONHOUND BOERBOEL BOLOGNESE BORDER COLLIE BORDER TERRIER BORZOI BOSTON TERRIER BOUVIER DES FLANDRES BOXER BOYKIN SPANIEL BRACCO ITALIANO BRAQUE D'AUVERGNE BRAQUE DU BOURBONNAIS BRAQUE FRANCAIS BRAQUE FRANCAIS PYRENEES BRIARD BRITISH SHORTHAIR CAT BRITTANY BRUSSELS GRIFFON BULL TERRIER BULLDOG BULLMASTIFF CAIRN TERRIER CANAAN CANADIAN ESKIMO DOG CANE CORSO CARDIGAN WELSH CORGI CATALAN SHEEPDOG CAUCASIAN OVCHARKA CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL CENTRAL ASIAN SHEPHERD CESKY FOUSECK CESKY TERRIER CHART POLSKI CHESAPEAKE BAY RETRIEVER CHIHUAHUA CHINESE CRESTED CHINESE FOO DOG CHINESE SHAR-PEI CHINOOK CHINOOK HYBRID CHOW CHOW CIRNECO DELL ETNA CLUMBER SPANIEL COCKAPOO COCKER SPANIEL COLLIE COTON DE TULEAR CURLY-COATED RETRIEVER CZECHOSLOVAKIAN WOLFDOG DACHSHUND DALMATIAN DANDIE DINMONT TERRIER DANISH SWEDISH FARMDOG DEUTSCH-DRAHTHAAR DOBERMAN PINSCHER DOGUE DE BORDEAUX DOMESTIC CAT DRAHTHAAR DRENTSCH PARTRIDGE DOG DREVER DUTCH SHEPHERD ENGLISH COCKER SPANIEL ENGLISH COONHOUND ENGLISH FOXHOUND ENGLISH JACK RUSSELL TERRIER ENGLISH SETTER ENGLISH SHEPHERD ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL ENGLISH TOY SPANIEL ENTLEBUCHER EPAGNEUL BRETON ESTRELA MOUNTAIN DOG EURASIER FIELD SPANIEL FILA BRASILEIRO FINNISH LAPPHUND FINNISH SPITZ FLAT-COATED RETRIEVER FRENCH BULLDOG FRENCH POINTER FRENCH SPANIEL FRIESE STABIJHOUN GERMAN LONGHAIRED POINTER GERMAN PINSCHER GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER GERMAN SPANIEL GERMAN SPITZ GERMAN WIREHAIRED POINTER GIANT SCHNAUZER GLEN OF IMAAL TERRIER GOLDEN RETRIEVER GORDON SETTER GRAND BASSET GRIFFON VENDEEN GRAND BLEU DE GASCOGNE GREAT DANE GREAT PYRENEES GREATER SWISS MOUNTAIN DOG GREYHOUND HANGIN TREE COWDOG HARRIER HAVANA SILK DOG HAVANESE HIMALAYAN-PERSIAN HOVAWART HYBRID IBIZAN HOUND ICELANDIC SHEEPDOG IRISH RED & WHITE SETTER IRISH SETTER IRISH TERRIER IRISH WATER SPANIEL IRISH WOLFHOUND ITALIAN GREYHOUND JACK RUSSELL TERRIER JAPANESE CHIN JAPANESE SPITZ KAI-KEN KANGAL DOG KARELIAN BEAR DOG KEESHOND KERRY BLUE TERRIER KING SHEPHERD KOMONDOR KOOIKERHONDJE KROMFOHRLANDER KUVASZ KYI-LEO LABRADOODLE LABRADOR RETRIEVER LAGOTTO ROMAGNOLO LAKELAND TERRIER LANDSEER LARGE MUNSTERLANDER LEONBERGER LHASA APSO LITTLE LION DOG LOUBERAL LOUISIANA CATAHOULA LEOPARD LOWCHEN LUPINE DOG MAGYAR AGAR MAINE COON CAT MALTESE MANCHESTER TERRIER MAREMMA MASTIFF MC NAB MI-KI MINIATURE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD MINIATURE BULL TERRIER MINIATURE PINSCHER MINIATURE SCHNAUZER MINIATURE SHEEPDOG MOUNTAIN CUR MUDI NATIVE AM. INDIAN DOG NEAPOLITAN MASTIFF NEW ZEALAND HUNTAWAY NEWFOUNDLAND NORFOLK TERRIER NORRBOTTENSPETS NORTH AMERICAN SHEPHERD NORTHERN TIMBER DOG NORWEGIAN BUHUND NORWEGIAN ELKHOUND NORWEGIAN LUNDEHUND NORWICH TERRIER NOVA SCOTIA DUCKTOLLING RET. OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG OLDE ENGLISH BULLDOGGE OLDE VICTORIAN BULLDOGGE OTTERHOUND PAPILLON PARSON RUSSELL TERRIER PATTERDALE TERRIER PEKINGESE PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI PERRO DE PRESA CANARIO PERSIAN CAT PERUVIAN INCA ORCHID PETIT BASSET GRIFFONS VENDEEN PHARAOH HOUND POINTER POLISH LOWLAND SHEEPDOG POLISH TATRA SHEEPDOG POMERANIAN POODLE PORTUGUESE PODENGO PEQUENO PORTUGUESE POINTER PORTUGUESE WATER DOG PUDELPOINTER PUG PULI PUMI PYRENEAN MASTIFF PYRENEAN SHEPHERD RAGAMUFFIN RAGDOLL RAT TERRIER REDBONE COONHOUND RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK ROTTWEILER RUSSELL TERRIER RUSSIAN EUROPEAN LIAKA RUSSIAN TOY RUSSIAN TSVETNAYA BOLONKA SALUKI SAMOYED SARPLANINAC SCHAPENDOES SCHIPPERKE SCOTTISH DEERHOUND SCOTTISH TERRIER SEALYHAM TERRIER SHETLAND SHEEPDOG SHIBA INU SHIH TZU SHIKOKU SHILOH SHEPHERD SIAMESE CAT SIBERIAN HUSKY SILKEN WINDHOUND SILKY TERRIER SKYE TERRIER SLOVAK TCHOUVATCH SLOVENSKY CUVAC SMALL MUNSTERLANDER SMOOTH FOX TERRIER SOFT COATED WHEATEN TERRIER SOMALI SPANISH MASTIFF SPANISH WATER DOG SPHYNX SPINONE ITALIANO ST. BERNARD STABYHOUN STAFFORDSHIRE BULL TERRIER STANDARD SCHNAUZER SUSSEX SPANIEL SWEDISH LAPPHUND SWEDISH VALLHUND TAMASKAN THAI BANGKAEW THAI RIDGEBACK TIBETAN KYIAPSO TIBETAN MASTIFF TIBETAN SPANIEL TIBETAN TERRIER TOSA TOY AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD TOY FOX TERRIER TREEING TENNESSEE BRINDLE TREEING WALKER TUNDRA SHEPHERD TURKISH ANGORA CAT VIZSLA VOLPINO ITALIANO VOSTOZNO-SIBIRSKAJA LAJKA WACHTELHUND WALKER HOUND WEIMARANER WELSH SHEEPDOG WELSH SPRINGER SPANIEL WELSH TERRIER WEST HIGHLAND WHITE TERRIER WHIPPET WHITE SHEPHERD WIRE FOX TERRIER WIREHAIRED POINTING GRIFFON WIREHAIRED VIZSLA WOLF WOLF HYBRID XOLOITZCUINTLI YORKSHIRE TERRIER YUGOSLAVIAN HERDER
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