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Boxer is first dog to have full genome revealed

by ChemWeb Editor — last modified 12-08-05 06:45 AM © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.

07 December 2005 NewScientist.com news service by Rowan Hooper

A female boxer dog has provided the DNA for the first complete sequence of the dog genome, putting into the doghouse the patchy, 80% coverage of a poodle called Shadow, published two years ago.

A publicly funded consortium led by Kerstin Lindblad-Toh of the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, used the shotgun sequencing technique to map the genome of Tasha, an inbred boxer. With this technique the genome is first broken into fragments and the DNA sequence of each determined. Then a computer stitches the fragments back together. Read more ......

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