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Disappearing Ancestors
Posted on February 27, 2012 | 4 CommentsYou aren’t related to most of your ancestors. It’s counter intuitive and shocking, but it’s true. For the most part the human genome is finite and each parent only passes […] -
February Genetics Quiz Answers
Posted on February 4, 2012 | 5 CommentsQuestion 1 Inbreeding leads to: Increased homozygosity. Increased expression of recessive traits. Decreased expression of dominant traits. Increased heterozygosity. Question 2 An allele: Is one of possibly many variations […] -
February Genetics Quiz
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 43 CommentsInspired by the Genetics Survey on Gene Expression and an inquiry from the CanineGenetics-L yahoo group, I figure it might be fun to post an occasional genetics quiz to reinforce some of […] -
Gene Therapy “Cures” Dog Blindness Again
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 2 CommentsBack in 2001, scientists first treated inherited blindness in dogs using gene therapy. In that instance it was Congenital Stationary Night Blindness which manifests in Briards and is analogous to […] -
Unexpected Leonberger Diversity
Posted on January 16, 2012 | 52 CommentsLeonberger history suggests that they should not be a genetically diverse breed. Although they were formed as a hodgepodge of large continental dogs a little over a century ago, two […]