Complete dog genome decoding helps to understand more about human disease

US scientists have just finished decoding the genome of a hybrid dog named Tasha, which not only helps explain the differences between jackals and poodles but also helps clarify the bone cancer, blindness and Epilepsy, which is very helpful in fighting disease in humans.

Dog Tasha

In the British journal Nature, scientists say the hound's history " may have been at least 15,000 years, maybe even 100,000 years ago, as the ancestor of the gray dog ​​in Asia. " .

' Dogs evolved in reciprocal relationships with humans, sharing living space and food sources ', according to scientists.

' The dog genome sequencing makes it easier to identify genes for many diseases than 50 times, ' said Dr. Eric Lander, a genetic researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The team arranged 2.4 billion letters on the dog Tasha's DNA, resulting in 39 pairs of chromosomes, while the human gene was found to have only 23 pairs of chromosomes.

These genes make a number of large dogs different from other small dogs, making the long muzzle different from the short snout dog, and affecting some dogs that make it suffer from a disease. This facilitates biomedical research and evolution in the laboratory.

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