Sentences with phrase «complete dog genome»

Now that we have mapped the complete dog genome, genes involved in both disease and desired traits can be identified much more quickly.

With the recent decoding of the complete dog genome, this coincidence could aid the search for cures to many devastating types of illness.

After completing the dog genome sequencing project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and collaborators are now working on identifying disease genes predisposing to cancer.

Not exact matches

But complete genomes of the ancient dogs suggest a simpler story.

Dillon's team, which includes Perri, studied 71 complete mitochondrial genomes and seven nuclear genomes of dogs from more than 20 North American sites, ranging in age from 10,000 to 800 years ago.

UCLA researchers analyzed the complete genome sequences of 19 wolves; 25 wild dogs from 10 different countries; and 46 domesticated dogs from 34 different breeds.

Researchers used it, in conjunction with the complete genomes of several modern dogs and wolves, to calculate a genetic mutation rate for canines.

Detailed phylogenetic analyses of several virus genes, some of which used complete CDV genomes, revealed that strains from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic were strongly distinct from those in domestic dogs and wild canids.

Scientists have analyzed the complete mitochondrial genomes of 18 prehistoric wolf - and dog - like animals to show that more than 18,000 years ago, dogs...

In order to aid selection of «a suitable dog» for inclusion in the Genome Sequencing Initiative Dr Cathryn Mellersh has requested that the Health Coordinator of each of the participating breeds complete a questionnaire to provide information about health concerns in their breed.

In the first of these, received on the 21st June, Dr Haywood stated that «the genome sequencing had been completed, that detailed analysis of the data from six of the dogs had been carried out over the summer and that Dr Cathryn Mellersh and the geneticists at the AHT would now be extending the analysis to cover the remaining twenty - nine dogs».

«Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs», Nov 15, 2013, Science Magazine.

The University of Minnesota Canine Genetics Laboratory completed the genome association study and identified the abnormal gene sequence, then began working on a DNA test to allow for breeding dogs to be screened.