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...Institute have mapped the genes of man’s best friend, the dog, in the hopes of uncovering insights into diseases that affect both humans and canines. The results, published in the December 8 issue of the science journal Nature, include the first comparative analysis of three mammalian genomes??€”human, mouse, and dog. Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, a graduate student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and one of the leaders of the research project, said that researchers were surprised that the sequences that humans had in common with dogs were the same...
Cost is important because the potential applications for sequencing human genomes??€”such as identifying the genes responsible for cancer or other diseases—are only valid if the price of the procedure falls. The most expensive element of the process is currently the $140,000 epifluorescence microscope...
Venter said that fears of discrimination by employers and insurance companies—based on inherited risk factors contained in individual genomes??€”are unfounded because “as soon as we sequence everyone’s code, we will all be insurable...
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