WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first full genetic map of a cat — a domestic pedigreed Abyssinian — is already shedding light on a common cause of blindness in humans and may offer insights into AIDS and other diseases, researchers reported on Wednesday.
And the cat genome shows some surprising qualities that cats and humans appear to have uniquely in common, the researchers report in the journal Genome Research.”We can start to interpret them in terms of one of evolution’s special creations, which is also probably one of the greatest predators that ever lived,” Dr. Stephen O’Brien of the National Cancer Institute, who helped lead the study, said in a telephone interview.
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