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Rory J Todhunter BVSc, PhD
The Maurice R and Corinne P Greenberg Professor of Surgery, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine


Dr Rory Todhunter received his BVSc from the University of Sydney and had a private veterinary practice in Newcastle, Australia for two years. He went to Michigan State University for a residency in Equine surgery, and subsequently completed a PhD at Cornell University in 1992. Todhunter has been at Cornell since 1993 and is currently Professor of Surgery in the College of Veterinary Medicine. His clinical work is in small animal orthopedics and neurosurgery, and his research focuses on the genetics of osteoarthritis and canine hip dysplasia.  He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and a member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists.


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Selected Publications

Precision and Accuracy of Ground Reaction Force Normalization in a Heterogeneous Population of Dogs
U Krotscheck, RJ Todhunter, SA Nelson, NB Sutter, HO Mohammed
Veterinary Surgery 43 (4), 437-445

Monitoring Hip and Elbow Dysplasia Achieved Modest Genetic Improvement of 74 Dog Breeds over 40 Years in USA
Y Hou, Y Wang, X Lu, X Zhang, Q Zhao, RJ Todhunter, Z Zhang
PloS one 8 (10), e76390

Principal component analysis of canine hip dysplasia phenotypes and their statistical power for genome-wide association mapping
F Duan, D Ogden, L Xu, K Liu, G Lust, J Sandler, NL Dykes, L Zhu, ...
Journal of Applied Statistics 40 (2), 235-251

Identification of quantitative trait loci for canine hip dysplasia by two sequential multipoint linkage analyses
L Zhu, S Chen, Z Jiang, Z Zhang, HC Ku, X Li, M McCann, S Harris, G Lust, ...
Journal of Applied Statistics 39 (8), 1719-1731

Canine hip dysplasia is predictable by genotyping
G Guo, Z Zhou, Y Wang, K Zhao, L Zhu, G Lust, L Hunter, S Friedenberg, ...
Osteoarthritis and cartilage 19 (4), 420-429

Evaluation of quantitative trait loci for hip dysplasia in Labrador Retrievers
J Phavaphutanon, RG Mateescu, KL Tsai, PA Schweitzer, EE Corey, ...
American journal of veterinary research 70 (9), 1094-1101

Complex population structure in African village dogs and its implications for inferring dog domestication history
AR Boyko, RH Boyko, CM Boyko, HG Parker, M Castelhano, L Corey, ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (33), 13903-13908

Estimation of heritabilities, genetic correlations, and breeding values of four traits that collectively define hip dysplasia in dogs
Z Zhang, L Zhu, J Sandler, SS Friedenberg, J Egelhoff, AJ Williams, ...
American journal of veterinary research 70 (4), 483-492

Development and use of DNA archives at veterinary teaching hospitals to investigate at veterinary teaching hospitals to investigate the genetic basis of disease in dogs
MGP Castelhano, GM Acland, PA Ciccone, EE Corey, JG Mezey, ...
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
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