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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(3):204-206; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.3.204
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 3, 204-206, February 3, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Sit, DNA, Sit: Cancer Genetics Going to the Dogs

Bob Kuska

It might not make the list of top ten trends in the new millenium, but a growing number of scientists predict human genetics — including cancer genetics — will go to the dogs in the 21st century. Not figuratively, but literally.

They say the dog, with its many emerging strengths as a genetic model, could join the mouse as the species of choice to unravel the mysteries of mammalian genetics, considered to be the great challenge in biology in the next century.

But, unlike so much of the research conducted on animals, the dog also stands to reap huge and painless rewards from its master's growing curiosity over its DNA. Already, an initial wave of molecular genetic studies in the dog have led to breeding programs that within just a few years have begun to wipe out dread diseases in the Bedlington terrier, Irish setter, Manchester terrier, Shetland sheepdog, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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