Dog domestication saddled man's best friend with defective genes, study says

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 12:15 in Psychology & Sociology

Dogs may be man’s best friend, but the humans who created them through generations of breeding have saddled them with an excess of detrimental DNA, according to a new study. For instance, the people who bred poodles to have black coats left many of these dogs with extra copies of a gene called ...

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