Dogs have served humans as guards, guides, retrievers, shepherds and companions for more than 10,000 years. Now geneticists are enlisting their help in another task — identifying the genetic roots of diseases that affect both man and beast.
Dogs suffer from a number of inherited eye conditions; the progression of their symptoms and gradual vision loss [...]

Tags: blindness, dachshunds, Frode Lingaas, gene therapy, genome-wide association study, NPHP4