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Spliced-in gene lays dogs low

Reuters: Science - Posted: July 16th, 2009, 10:12pm EDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - An extra gene may explain why dachshunds, corgis and basset hounds have short, stubby legs, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a finding that may also lend new clues about human dwarfism.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=luh--oiIWYs:quWS52Rp6iI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=luh--oiIWYs:quWS52Rp6iI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=luh--oiIWYs:quWS52Rp6iI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=luh--oiIWYs:quWS52Rp6iI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=luh--oiIWYs:quWS52Rp6iI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/luh--oiIWYs" height="1" width="1"/

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