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The Geneticist's Best Friend
Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 21 September 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5845, pp. 1668 - 1671
Many dog breeds are like large inbred families, and many times have known genealogies, so that each breed is, as Elaine Ostrander describes it, "like a mini Iceland or Finland". Along with Carlos Bustamante, they are developing the dog equivalent of HapMap: CANMAP (didn't see it online yet)
By the way, Science has several other papers on dog genetics:
Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs
Genetic Structure of the Purebred Domestic Dog
A Single IGF1 Allele Is a Major Determinant of Small Size in Dogs
and cognition:
Man's Best Friend(s) Reveal the Possible Roots of Social Intelligence
I think there is a lot of potential here... it sounds like European scientists are leading the effort. One of my favorite examples is the foxes in Russia who
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