Dog Genome Mapped, Shows Similarities to Humans
`Researchers have finished mapping the genome of the domestic dog.
The results show among other things that dogs, mice, and humans share a core set of DNA. [..]
Scientists had previously found that about 5 percent of the human genome sequence appears in the mouse genome. The new study shows that 5 percent of the human genome is also shared with dogs.
Significantly, the sequences that are conserved in all three species are virtually the same.’
