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Washington announces U.S.-Canadian study on cattle
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Washington — A $53-million (U.S.) project to map the genetic makeup of cattle was launched Friday with the hope it will boost human health by controlling animal disease.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture launched the multinational Bovine Genome Sequencing Project that seeks to identify the functions of cattle genes.

Research will be carried out by Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, the University of Alberta and Genome British Columbia at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver

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