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Author Topic:   Portugese Water Dogs & Regulatory Genes
Mammuthus
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Message 4 of 8 (26007)
12-09-2002 3:07 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Chara
12-08-2002 11:50 PM


Hi Chara,
Is there a text version anywhere? Every time the video starts my RealPlayer crashes.
My impression is it was only a story about a breed of dogs that was generated from only a few breeding pairs of animals. They were carrying a recessive deleterious allele of some gene and now it is at a high frequency in the dog breed. This is a fairly common occurrence and is why geneticists study inbred populations to get a better handle on diseases. In humans to i.e. studies of the Amish or the Ashkenazhi jews.
Cheers,
M

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