Dog genetics to unravel human diseases
Dogs are more than man’s best friends; they can help us unravelling the genetic of diseases such as cancer, epilepsy, cardiovascular troubles or inflammatory disorders as diabetes or thyroid unbalance. Living in the same environment human and dogs are often suffering from the same complex diseases but the genetic complexity is lower in dogs. During 4 years (2008-2011) twenty veterinary schools from 12 countries spread across Europe will work together to collect 10.000 DNA samples from purebred dogs healthy or affected by similar diseases as human.
1 Genetic markers: a specific DNA sequences lying on a chromosome so close to a gene that the marker and the gene are inherited together associated with the development of diseases.
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