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Nature Genetics 39, 1304 - 1306 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ng1107-1304

How the dog got its spots

Gregory S Barsh1

  1. Gregory S. Barsh is in the Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
    e-mail: gbarsh@stanford.edu


Differences among dog breeds provide unique opportunities for studying the genetics of behavior, morphology and complex disease. Two new studies demonstrate how the unique evolutionary history of domestic dogs is particularly well suited to analysis by genome-wide association.

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