July 30, 2021
‘Dark matter’ in cat genomes may shed light on human disease
While dogs are man’s best friend, cats are more genetically similar to humans than almost any other mammal, according to a researcher and her team at the University of Missouri. The findings, published today in Trends in Genetics, come from decades of genomic DNA sequencing by Leslie Lyons, a Gilbreath-McLorn-sponsored professor of comparative medicine at the MU College of Veterinary …