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The Genetic Basis of Coat Variation in Dogs

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The genetic age, characterized by numerous genome projects (not the least of which is the Human Genome Project) has focused the public's attention on the influence of our genes on our characteristics. This has led to questions about whether there is a "gene" for risk-taking, or homosexuality, or aggressiveness. Indeed, the pervasiveness of the "gene" question for complex traits has produced something of a backlash, illustrated by Richard Lewontin's books, Not in Our Genes and It Ain't Necessarily So, making the reasonable point that genetic reductionism has its limitations. But genes are certainly implicated in...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).