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How the dog got its spots

Nature Genetics volume 39, pages 1304–1306 (2007)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Genome-wide association in domestic dogs.

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

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