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By Edward R. Winstead Posted: March 4, 2004
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The chicken genome isn’t likely to answer questions about the bird flu or yield immediate solutions. But in the years ahead researchers can hunt for genes in chickens that may protect against certain types of infections or make a bird susceptible to a virus. The chicken, the Red Jungle Fowl, is the first bird to have its genome sequenced. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sequenced the bird, which is the ancestor of domestic chickens.
The chicken genome sequence has been deposited in GenBank, the online DNA database. The U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute spent $13 million on the project.
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