Why Obama’s dog has curly hair (EurekAlert!)

( University of Utah ) University of Utah researchers used data from Portuguese water dogs — the breed of President Barack Obama’s dog Bo — to help find a gene that gives some dogs curly hair and others long, wavy hair. It was part of a National Institutes of Health study — published onlineThursday, Aug. 27, by the journal Science — showing that variations in only three genes account for …

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