Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

CNN ^ | Thursday, September 25, 2003 Posted: 2:18 PM EDT (1818 GMT)

[RoughDobermann]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Man's best friend, in this case a male poodle, is genetically more similar to humans than is the mouse, a more commonly used laboratory animal, according to researchers who have completed the first rough draft sequence of the genes of a dog.

[billorites]

Here come the Chelsea jokes.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Now i know why i've been answering to a bark and why i've been itching behind the ear!

[LiteKeeper]

All mammals, at one point, had a common ancestor. But dogs are known to have diverged toward an independent species about 95 million years ago. The mouse and humans both diverged about 87 million years ago, making mice closer to humans in time.

There is no proof of this claim. It is based on naturalistic presuppositions, minus any evidence.

[balrog666]

Man's best friend ping.

[r9etb]

Here come the Chelsea jokes.

Now, now... I'd only make Chelsea jokes on a camel thread....

[VadeRetro]

Your ping list needed!

[1rudeboy]

Whew. I expected worse from the headline.

[Verginius Rufus]

Dogs, he said, are second only to humans in the thoroughness of medical understanding and research.

This is news to me--I have never heard of any dogs engaging in medical research.

[Billthedrill]

Man, that's relief! When the Vice Squad called and said "Mr. Drill, we've recovered your DNA from a poodle" I thought they meant something else...

[piasa]

Dogs, he said, are second only to humans in the thoroughness of medical understanding and research.

" This is news to me--I have never heard of any dogs engaging in medical research."

Maybe they should have consulted with an English setter for help on writing this article.

[KevinB]

Poodles are dogs?

[KarlInOhio]

Poodles are dogs?

Cheese eating surrender dogs.

[piasa]

No, they're rats in sheep's clothing.

Otherwise known as Europuppies.

[PatrickHenry]

PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]

[PatrickHenry]

Ewen F. Kirkness of the institute for Genomic Research, the first author of the study, said that genetic sequence is important for medical research because dogs share about 360 of the same genetic disorders that are known in humans. [snip] Using this technique from species to species will enable researchers to more quickly and at less cost identify the genetic source of many human disorders, he said.

Yes, as the creationists claim, nothing useful ever comes from the theory of evolution.

[Lurking Libertarian]

There is no proof of this claim. It is based on naturalistic presuppositions, minus any evidence.

Actually, it is based on a mountain of evidence.

[Dimensio]

You missed the part where it was stated that "It is based on naturalistic presuppositions". This is true, since it doesn't assume that some god magicked everything to be as it is. How unscientific, refusing to entertain fantastic notions like that.

[tet68]

I can tell you with out looking that the "Politico" genome won't even be close to human.

Probably down there with Lawyers.

[AndrewC]

It is based on naturalistic presuppositions, minus any evidence.

Oh there is evidence, but it is the presuppositions that color the conclusions.

All mammals, at one point, had a common ancestor. But dogs are known to have diverged toward an independent species about 95 million years ago. The mouse and humans both diverged about 87 million years ago, making mice closer to humans in time.

Just how do they know when the dog diverged? Well, the same way they determined when the whales "diverged" from the mesonychus. What is that you say? The whales "diverged" from the pakicetus!!