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Do dogs display behavioral traits central to Williams-Beuren Syndrome? Transposons, behavior & training success in assistance dogs
2023-06-30
Abstract excerpt
Williams-Beuren Syndrome (WBS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder in humans caused by a hemizygous deletion of 28–30 genes and characterized by hypersociability and cognitive deficits. In canines, the homologous chromosomal region shows a strong signature of selection in domestic dogs relative to gray wolves, and four structural variants derived from transposons have been associated with social behavior. To explore...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 98718c55-55d3-53d8-a664-585bdb4f3e6f
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2902414/v1
