Wansheng Liu and his team at Penn State were involved in the construction of a high-resolution gene map with about 10,000 DNA markers.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. An animal scientist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences played a role in the first complete sequencing of the pig genome by an international team of researchers. The study, conducted by the International Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium, provides a genetic comparison of the domesticated pig and its wild cousins. The research, described in the cover article of the Nov. 15 issue of the journal Nature, offers clues about how the animal evolved. The article is available at http://psu.ag/SHjXHu. Wansheng Liu, associate professor of animal genomics in the Department of Animal Science , participated in the study, which includes comparisons of the human, mouse, dog, horse, cow and pig genomes.
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