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Dog Genome
Canine genome available now to research community worldwide
August 6th, 2004
The first draft of the dog genome sequence has been deposited into free public databases for use by biomedical and veterinary researchers around the globe, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced. A team led by Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, PhD, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Agencourt Bioscience Corp., Beverly, Massachusetts, successfully assembled the genome of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris). The breed of dog sequenced was the boxer, which was chosen after analyses of 60 dog breeds found it was one of the breeds with the least amount of...
Source: Genomics & Genetics Weekly (2004-08-06)
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