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Mit: Blossoms: Discovering Genes Associated With Diseases and Traits in Dogs

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In this video module, students learn how scientists use genetic information from dogs to find out which gene (out of all 20,000 dog genes) is associated with any specific trait or disease of interest. This method involves comparing hundreds of dogs with the trait to hundreds of dogs not displaying the trait, and examining which position on the dog DNA is correlated with the trait. [34:17]

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)