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Six thousand pet dogs help find mutation for one breed’s striking blue eyes

Home-based genetic sampling uncovers source of Siberian Huskies’ ice-blue stare.
Group of Siberian huskies

Many Siberian Huskies have blue eyes, which have now been traced to a double dose of a particular stretch of DNA. Credit: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty

The Siberian Husky owes its characteristic blue eyes in part to a genetic mutation identified with help from a consumer DNA test.

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Nature 562, 310 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06987-w

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