Victoria Lindsay McGee

Victoria Lindsay McGee

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Equine geneticist, veterinary data analyst, MSc programme coordinator and teaching fellow.

Publications

You can also find my articles on my ORCiD profile.

Journal Articles

Why equestrians use auxiliary reins on horses, their biomechanical perceptions, and barriers to human behaviour change.

Published in Journal of Equine Rehabilitation, 2025

This paper found that 60% of respodnents had or would use auxiliary reins, and these equestrians had signifcantly lower biomechanical knowledge test scores than those who no longer used them. Social influence and lack of physical riding or training skills were primary drivers for use.

Recommended citation: Tapuska M, Lindsay-McGee V & Wolframm I (2025). Why equestrians use auxiliary reins on horses, their biomechanical perceptions, and barriers to human behaviour change. Journal of Equine Rehabilitation 3: 100032.
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[Preprint] Breed-specific effects of inbreeding and artificial selection on susceptibility to equine exertional rhabdomyolysis.

Published in Authorea, 2024

This paper found that Connemara ponies had indicators of selection between RER and control ponies, whilst Warmblood horses with RER were significantly more inbred than controls.

Recommended citation: Lindsay-McGee V, Clark EL, Piercy RJ & Psifidi A (2024). [Preprint] Breed-specific effects of inbreeding and artificial selection on susceptibility to equine exertional rhabdomyolysis. Authorea [Online].
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Characterisation of phenotypic patterns in equine exertional myopathy syndrome.

Published in Equine Veterinary Journal, 2024

This paper found two distinct phenotypes within recurrent exertional rhabdomyolsyis syndrome in horses, that clustered based on patterns of clinical signs, indicating potential novel subtypes of the disease.

Recommended citation: Lindsay-McGee V, Massey C, Li YT, Clark EL, Psifidi A, & Piercy RJ (2024) Characterisation of phenotypic patterns in equine exertional myopathy syndrome. Equine Veterinary Journal.
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Pharmacological inhibition of acetylcholinesterase improves the locomotion defective phenotype of a SCA3 C. elegans model.

Published in microPublication Biology, 2024

This paper found that acetylcholinesterase inhibitor rescued a locomotion defect in Machado-Joseph disease model C.elegans, indicating a potential role in the disease dvelopment.

Recommended citation: Pohl, F, Lindsay-McGee, V, Kong Thoo Lin, P, Maciel, P, & Teixeira-Castro, A (2024). Pharmacological inhibition of acetylcholinesterase improves the locomotion defective phenotype of a SCA3 C. elegans model. microPublication Biology.
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Does inbreeding contribute to pregnancy loss in Thoroughbred horses?

Published in Equine Veterinary Journal, 2024

This paper found that inbreeding in Throughbreds was a contributor to middle-to-late term pregnancy loss, but not to early pregnancy loss.

Recommended citation: Lawson, J. M., Shilton, C. A., Lindsay‐McGee, V., Psifidi, A., Wathes, D. C., Raudsepp, T. & De Mestre, A. M. (2024). Does inbreeding contribute to pregnancy loss in Thoroughbred horses? Equine Veterinary Journal.
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Genetic characterisation of the Connemara pony and the Warmblood horse using a within-breed clustering approach.

Published in Genetics Selection Evolution, 2023

In this paper, we discovered that Warmblood horses are better genetically described by genetic clusters rather than studbook of origin, and demonstrated than Connemara ponies have increasing inbreeding on a level with Warmbloods.

Recommended citation: Lindsay-McGee, V., Sanchez-Molano, E., Banos, G., Clark, E. L., Piercy, R. J. & Psifidi, A. (2023). Genetic characterisation of the Connemara pony and the Warmblood horse using a within-breed clustering approach. Genetics selection Evolution. 55: 1-22.
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Integrating genetic and genomic analyses of combined health data across ecotypes to improve disease resistance in indigenous African chickens.

Published in Frontiers in Genetics, 2020

In this paper, we assessed phenotypes associated with health and productivity across native chicken ecotypes, to determine whether increased sample size across ecotypes outweighed increased genetic variation to detect putative canidate genes and variants associated with traits and genomic prediction of traits.

Recommended citation: Banos, G., Lindsay, V., Desta, T. T., Bettridge, J., Sanchez-Molano, E., Vallejo-Trujillo, A., Matika, O., Dessie, T., Wigley, P., Christley, R. M., Kaiser, P., Hanotte, O. & Psifidi, A. (2020). Integrating genetic and genomic analyses of combined health data across ecotypes to improve disease resistance in indigenous African chickens. Frontiers in Genetics. 1169.
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GST-4-dependent suppression of neurodegeneration in C. elegans models of Parkinsons and Machado-Joseph disease by rapeseed pomace extract supplementation.

Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019

In this paper, we demonstrated that rapeseed pomace extract rescued the motor function of Machdo-Joseph disease model C.elegans and prevented dopaminergic degeneration in in two C. elegans models of Parkinsons disease.

Recommended citation: Banos, G., Lindsay, V., Desta, T. T., Bettridge, J., Sanchez-Molano, E., Vallejo-Trujillo, A., Matika, O., Dessie, T.,Pohl, F., Teixeira-Castro, A., Costa, M. D., Lindsay, V., Fiúza-Fernandes, J., Goua, M., Bermano, G., Russell, W., Maciel, P. & Kong Thoo Lin, P. (2019). GST-4-dependent suppression of neurodegeneration in *C. elegans* models of Parkinsons and Machado-Joseph disease by rapeseed pomace extract supplementation. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13.
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Lay Media

All Tied Up.

Published in Your Horse Magazine, 2025

In this podcast episode, we dive into animal genetics with Dr. Victoria Lindsay-McGee, who introduces the fundamentals of animal genetics

Recommended citation: Lindsay V, Psifidi A and Piercy RJ (2021) All Tied Up. Your Horse Magazine April 2021 Issue (later adapted online 2023 and 2025)
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Introduction to Animal Genetics with Dr Victoria Lindsay-McGee.

Published in Stable Science Podcast, 2024

In this podcast episode, we dive into animal genetics with Dr. Victoria Lindsay-McGee, who introduces the fundamentals of animal genetics

Recommended citation: David Marlin Animalweb (2024). Introduction to Animal Genetics with Dr Victoria Lindsay-McGee. Stable Science Podcast
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