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Balto’s genome, the scientists found, possessed certain gene variants that may have helped the dog thrive in the extreme Alaskan environment and endure what is now called the Serum Run.

it is because many of the genetic diseases are a product of generations of line breeding (a polite way of saying incest), and ...

making it more likely for harmful recessive genes to pair up and result in disease. Treatments for familial kidney disease in dogs While there is no cure for familial kidney disease in dogs ...

Therefore, females with an X chromosome-linked recessive disease inherit one copy of the mutant gene from an affected father and the second copy of the mutant gene from their mother, who is most ...

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of the story is told in the DNA of the dogs.

Coat type in dogs is determined by a single gene with two alleles. The straight coat allele is dominant D, and the curly coat allele is recessive d. Two dogs with the alleles Dd breed. a.