von Willebrand’s disease (vWD) is a blood clotting disorder…
von Willebrand’s disease (vWD) is a blood clotting disorder in standard poodles. A defect in the gene that encodes the the von Willebrand factor (a blood clotting protein) is responsible for the vWD phenotype in homozygous (ww) individuals. W is the dominant allele and w is the recessive allele because the W allele