PURE BRED DOGS AID DISCOVERY OF GENETIC DISEASE CAUSES
January 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERAPY dogs can be a great nursing aid, but new European Union (EU)-funded research has shown how pure bred dogs can be powerful resource for investigating the sources of disease in human patients. The fact is that dogs suffer from many of the same diseases as their two-legged owners, and it is a lot easier to investigate the genetic causes of such illnesses in pure bred dogs. This is because the necessary in-breeding has simplified their genetic structure, making it easier to spot an errant gene than in the human population, which is - ...
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