• Ups. J. Med. Sci. · Feb 2020

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    What animals can teach us about evolution, the human genome, and human disease.

    • Kerstin Lindblad-Toh.
    • Department for Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    • Ups. J. Med. Sci. 2020 Feb 1; 125 (1): 191-9.

    AbstractDuring the past 20 years, since I started as a postdoc, the world of genetics and genomics has changed dramatically. My main research goal throughout my career has been to understand human disease genetics, and I have developed comparative genomics and comparative genetics to generate resources and tools for understanding human disease. Through comparative genomics I have worked to sequence enough mammals to understand the functional potential of each base in the human genome as well as chosen vertebrates to study the evolutionary changes that have given many species their key traits. Through comparative genetics, I have developed the dog as a model for human disease, characterising the genome itself and determining a list of germ-line loci and somatic mutations causing complex diseases and cancer in the dog. Pulling all these findings and resources together opens new doors for understanding genome evolution, the genetics of complex traits and cancer in man and his best friend.

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