@article{318c5f8b41464a0f85add4d5aa2e79dc,
title = "Homozygosity for mobile element insertions associated with WBSCR17 could predict success in assistance dog training programs",
abstract = "Assistance dog training programs can see as many as 60% of their trainees dismissed. Many training programs utilize behavioral assays prior to admittance to identify likely successful candidates, yet such assays can be insconsistent. Recently, four canine retrotransposon mobile element insertions (MEIs) in or near genes WBSCR17 (Cfa6.6 and Cfa6.7), GTF2I (Cfa6.66) and POM121 (Cfa6.83) were identified in domestic dogs and gray wolves. Variations in these MEIs were significantly associated with a heightened propensity to initiate prolonged social contact or hypersociability.",
keywords = "Canis, Domestication, Genetics, Hypersociability, Transposons",
author = "Dhriti Tandon and Kyra Ressler and Daniel Petticord and Andrea Papa and Juliana Jiranek and Riley Wilkinson and Kartzinel, {Rebecca Y.} and Ostrander, {Elaine A.} and Nathaniel Burney and Carol Borden and Udell, {Monique A.R.} and vonHoldt, {Bridgett Marie}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding: E.A.O. was funded by the Intramural Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute. This research was partially funded by the Princeton Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology{\textquoteright}s Porter {\textquoteright}52 Research Fund and the Princeton Office of Undergraduate Research. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
doi = "10.3390/genes10060439",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
journal = "Genes",
issn = "2073-4425",
publisher = "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)",
number = "6",
}