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Leg Length Variation in Dogs and its Relevance to Human Mutations

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- One of the benefits of the exponential increase in genetic information consequent to the determination of the genomic DNA sequence of numerous species (the various "genome projects" that include the Human Genome Project) is that it permits sequence comparisons between related species. One result of this new knowledge has been to verify the similarity of developmental control genes throughout the animal kingdom (where genes like the Hox genes in nematode worms and fruit flies have been identified in humans, for example). Within species, decoded genetic information, and the ability to associate genetic variation between individuals...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).