After reading an article on how the "Seeing Eye" (a well established foundation that breeds and trains a closed colony of GSDs and Labrador Retrievers for the blind) had significantly reduced the incidence of HD in their closed breeding colony (through use of OFA and Penn-Hip), I did some more research, and found this article (sorry for the dense statistical reading!):
http://www.seeingeye.org/cms/uploads/HowToUseEBV.pdf
After reading the article, I wondered if the research or software might have any usefulness for our breed? Mostly it is used in commercial organizations (such as beef farming), or in cases like the Seeing Eye, where the "art" of breeding many factors (such as a waterproof coat, not-too-long ears or tail, yellow eyes, etc.) isn't a top priority...but, I guess maybe it could also be useful for speeding up the improvment of the health of a breed, if certain diseases were focused on?
Marcy